#HamOrJam #PicnicWaspSurvey

Offered ham (aka protein) and an apple (‘jam’ aka sweet) - It’s ‘jam’ for this wasp today!

Pls submit your wasp food choices at your picnic!

Help us reach 500 records for August!

Read about it & submit data here:
www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/au...

@uclcber.bsky.social

Ham or jam? Help scientists by recording wasp food preferences The next time a wasp visits your picnic, if you make a note of whether it goes for protein or sugar, you can help UCL scientists better understand the wasp life cycle.

More on the #HamOrJam #WaspPicnicSurvey, how to dine peacefully with wasps and where to submit your wasp observations at picnics:
www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/au...

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Thrilled to see data flying in for #HamOrJam #WaspPicnicSurvey today after my interview on #BBCRadio2 #JeremyVine show!
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Media wasp narrative has changed over the summer: wasp science now supercedes scaremongering 🥳.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
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If a wasp visits your picnic this wknd, what’s she after?
#HamOrJam?

Worker wasps hunt protein for the larvae but need sugar themselves.

Help us learn about their food preferences-tell us what wasps want at your picnic.
#CitizenScience
#WaspPicnicSurvey

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

So fab to hear these stories of dining with wasps!
PLEASE submit your observations on the #HamOrJam #WaspPicnicSurvey to help us learn more about how wasp preferences change with season and location. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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#WaspLove

Ham or Jam - What are wasps after at your picnic? Summer time means wasps visiting picnics! Sometimes they go for protein (e.g. ham) other times it's sugar (e.g. jam). Learning about the type of food wasps are after tells us about their life-cycle an...

Please do submit your #HamOrJam obs here docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Top marks to my mum-in-law for sharing her pork sarnie with a picnic wasp today- c before & after pixs!
AND for adding her obs to #HamOrJam #PicnicWaspSurvey

Have you submitted YOUR obs? You can submit as many as you like.

theconversation.com/what-to-do-w...

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Ham or jam? Help scientists by recording wasp food preferences The next time a wasp visits your picnic, if you make a note of whether it goes for protein or sugar, you can help UCL scientists better understand the wasp life cycle.

#HamOrJam? What food type do #Wasps want at YOUR picnic?

If you've got a choice of protein and sugar whilst alfresco dining this summer, and a wasp comes visiting, please tell us which she wants!

www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/au...

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Scientist reveals three things you can do to avoid a wasp sting Wasps seem to appear from nowhere in summer. Here’s how to deal with them

One of the great things about writing for @theconversation.com is that your article can be picked up & republished (under your name) elsewhere. Here's my #WaspPicnic #HAmOrJam article (free) in @the-independent.com

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www.independent.co.uk/life-style/h...

What a shame, Seirian! I love the idea of a #HamOrJam survey...

You and Yours - Conditional Selling, Car Finance, Couples Counselling - BBC Sounds How widespread is conditional selling in the housing market?

Wasps (and me!) On #Radio4 #YouAndYour today 12.35ish.

Follow link to #HamOrJam #WaspPicnicSurvey here and in @bbcsounds.bsky.social app.

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Ham or Jam - What are wasps after at your picnic? Summer time means wasps visiting picnics! Sometimes they go for protein (e.g. ham) other times it's sugar (e.g. jam). Learning about the type of food wasps are after tells us about their life-cycle an...

Thanks Brigit! Sadly she didn’t actually mention the survey I was promoting!! #HamOrJam!!

Pls share and ask ppl to report their #WaspPicnicSurvey obs

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Ham or Jam - What are wasps after at your picnic? Summer time means wasps visiting picnics! Sometimes they go for protein (e.g. ham) other times it's sugar (e.g. jam). Learning about the type of food wasps are after tells us about their life-cycle an...

Tell us what your picnic wasps want - #HamOrJam #WaspPicnicSurvey

Please share! And keep submitting thru the summer!

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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#WaspPicnicSurvey - Is your wasp wanting #HamOrJam?

Chicken (protein = 'ham') is the winner here!

Don't forget to submit your data here: tinyurl.com/HamOrJam

@johnnwells.bsky.social is my fav #WaspPicnicSurvey peep today 🥰, running an ACTUAL expt in his garden for the #HamOrJam survey!

Don’t forget to submit results online - 1 per wasp if possible, or post in the notes 4 ham; 0 jam!

tinyurl.com/HamOrJam

Pls keep obs going thru the summer!

Ham ham ham!!! #WaspPicnicSurvey

Amazing! Thank you @hamletisintown.bsky.social - be sure to submit your data here: tinyurl.com/HamOrJam 

Keep tall these wonderful observations of #HamOrJam #WaspPicnicSurvey coming in!

Ham or Jam - What are wasps after at your picnic? Summer time means wasps visiting picnics! Sometimes they go for protein (e.g. ham) other times it's sugar (e.g. jam). Learning about the type of food wasps are after tells us about their life-cycle an...

Whoop!! Please submit your data! #HamorJam #WaspPicnicSurvey tinyurl.com/HamOrJam

#WaspOfferings - they work.

Top marks @nationaltrust.org.uk

Help us BETTER undertsand what #WaspOffering to give: put out a plate of cooked ham along side the jar of jam... which do they prefer?
And submit your data here!
#HamOrJam #WaspPicnicSurvey
tinyurl.com/HamOrJam

I'm LOVING seeing the results come in on the #HamOrJam #WaspPicnicSurvey.

Keep them coming! What are wasps eating at YOUR picnic this summer?

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...