Quotes about wasps (15 Quotes)


    I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.

    It is a huge, huge game for Leeds because following this game they have to go away to Leicester and Wasps. They are a tremendously committed team and we are under no illusions as to how much they will want to win this game.





    'Tis no extravagant arithmetic to say, that for every ten jokes, thou hast got an hundred enemies and till thou hast gone on, and raised a swarm of wasps about thine ears, and art half stung to death by them, thou wilt never be convinced it is so.


    I thought our team played with great courage and conviction against Wasps so we've decided to reward their efforts and give them another shot this weekend against Saracens,

    Defensively, the Wasps played shorthanded, missing both starting defensive tackles and playing several first-year players in the secondary, a fact that didnt bode well against WJs shotgun formation and spread offense. We played extremely tough at first, before they figured out what we were doing, ... We had to play a totally different style of defense with only three tackles.

    I've been managed well by Wasps and by England, so I'm in good shape, fresh in body and mind. There can be no excuses for me. I've just kept on trying to use every little opportunity to put my case forward. I've worked hard, kept my head down and this has come as a pleasant surprise. It's going to take a monumental effort to win in Paris. You never know what you're going to get. It's the uncertainty. We've got to go there with the mentality that France are going to play the best game of their lives. That's the only way to ensure that your head is right.

    Yes, Wasps represent a tough start to the campaign especially with Ian McGeechan now their director of rugby, but, like every other team, they can have good and bad days.

    This planet is an exquisitely arranged and interconnected system. What's controlled in one place is going to have consequences in another place. Our job as gardeners is to try and figure this out no matter how small our allotted space might be. Discipline has to be the watchword for our controlling hands. It means not gardening without thinking of the garden as a habitat for mice, for squirrels, for bees and wasps. For other living creatures beyond ourselves.


    We're working with the Department of Agriculture and others for a biological control, as well as a treatment program so that we can stop the impact of the gall wasps.




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