Dead Crows nailed to post...

[veggiechicken]

Yes Mother...............

[alldigging]

That's interesting Darwin, I've often wondered what purpose a wasp serves,

That's where marmite comes from.


I've seen crow and fox corpses in various states of rot when I was a kid in Worcester. We used to disappear over the fields for hours to go and play around the stream and woods.
If it was meant to scare kids away it didn't work.

[SarzWix]

Some species of wasps are pollinators and also some are parisitic/omnivorous and prey on aphids and other insects. So some of them do have a purpose

[Aberdeenplotter]

I've even seen a wasp having a go at the caterpillars of the cabbage white. They are scavengers and do clean up loads. It's just a shame the sods sting for the hell of it .

[darcyvuqua]

That's interesting Darwin, I've often wondered what purpose a wasp serves, I have tried to think of something but just keep drawing a blank. I guess they must keep some pest at bay but given the choice I would choose said pest..........

Without a fig wasp figs would not survive. Thats quite interesting!

Wasp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Darwin.]

If you want to get rid if wasps though I hear if you nail one to a gate post it'll scare the rest away.

[Potstubsdustbins]

With regard to the purpose of things, unfortunately we sometimes don't find out their purpose until their extinct.

Colin

[Plot10]

I was brought up on a hillfarm in the Central Highlands and I remember there used to be a "gibbet" on one of the fences where the estate gamekeeper would hang dead stoats etc so i don't think it's restricted to any particular area.

On a slight tangent - I remember reading The Little Grey Men as a child - a truly wonderful book.

[petal]

It always used to upset me as a child that the farmer in that remote Cumbrian valley hung crows on the stone wall after he had shot them. I loved cheeky crows. He explained to me that it deterred the others for some reason or other, he had no idea why...and then showed me the result of too many crows= a lamb with its eyes pecked out by them. Blind she was, so would have to go for meat and not kept for breeding.

[rabbit]

I've never heard of this but I've lived on the outskirts of London my whole life. I have seen a squirrel with their eyes pecked out by crows in the park though. Horrific noise it was making. I hurried past with my little one but I wonder if anyone put it out of it's misery. Crows give me the heebie jeebies as they seem to have no fear. Magpies in other countries are very aggressive attack people regularl so maybe us in Europe should count ourselves lucky?