25 JUNE 1942, Page 18

Preservation of Vermin Pleas have been made for the preservation

of such vermin as stoat and weasels and indeed otters. What line are we to adopt regardin queen wasps? Personally I never kill them, having so often watche wasps engaged in killing flies and devouring blight. Nevertheless a grea many wasps' nests (which are certainly threatened this year) are a curse both at the breakfast-table and in the plum-c-chard. The wise thing to search for nests before their inhabitants are over-numerous. In m garden the queens are usually to be found on the cotoneasters, whic are favoured, also by the hive bees.