‘I feel motherly towards them’: the nature reserve manager sharing her office with a wasp nest

<p>Eilish Rothney’s first instinct was to get rid of the wasps entering her converted shipping container in Norfolk. Now she enjoys their constant hum</p><p>When wasps began streaming through a rusted gap in her office door one June morning, Eilish Rothney’s first instinct was the same most people would have: get rid of them. The reserve manager for the Trinity Broads, part of the Norfolk Wildlife Trust, had discovered a wasp colony taking up residence in her office, a converted shipping container.</p><p>“They just built the nest inside my door,” she says. “My first thought was: ‘Oh no, I have to get rid of that now.’ But then I realised: ‘Wait, why? Why do I have to do that?’”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/11/i-feel-motherly-towards-them-the-nature-reserve-manager-sharing-her-office-with-a-wasp-nest">Continue reading...</a>