5 OCTOBER 1945, Page 14

Why Hornets ?

Can any wise entomologist explain (t) Why hornets should be more numerous than in any year within memory and wasps fewer? You would think that the same conditions would help or hinder both. (2) Why red admiral butterflies, as indeed Commas, are legion, in numbers even greater than the common whites? I write, of course, of just one district—in the Home Counties north of London.