Why climate change is good news for wasps

Their numbers vary enormously from year to year, but warmer weather will provide wasps with more favourable conditions

Several new species of wasp have arrived in Britain with our warming weather, and their larger relative the hornet, once confined to the extreme south, has spread across England.

But how is our common wasp fairing? Most queen wasps still do not survive the winter. However, it is not cold that will have killed them, but spiders or other predators.