Hi I guess the sugar water mixture in my hummingbird feeder has attracted the wasps also.. Now when we go out to eat on our deck they are everywhere on the bbq going into our kids lemonade as fast as I swat them more come I see no nesting around the deck... Is there a solution for this except taking down my feeder or relocating it its in a great location for us to watch the hummingbirds out our kitchen window.. I just want the wasps to go...... Gord

Not sure if this is the correct place to post this question but here goes... How can one tell for sure if a tree has taken a lightning hit? There is a medium sized tree in my back yard which is relatively close to many other bigger trees that has been split right down the middle from it's natural fork, down about 4 feet before the split ends. This happened after a thunderstorm night before last. I know for a fact that this tree was fine before the storm as I had just looked at it the day before thinking about how I would trim it while the leaves were off it. This just doesn't look like wind damage to me. The tree has been otherwise healthy until this. We had one extremely very loud crack of thunder with brilliant white flash which [I]had[/I] to have been a very close hit during that storm. This neighborhood seems to be a popular target for lightning with 3 trees having been taken out in the last 2 years within 500 feet of my home. Any thoughts or experiences anyone can share on this?