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Homemade Wasp TrapI thought a homemade wasp trap might be a useful thing to tell people about. Bees and wasps are very different, although they do have the same evolutionary origin, so I get calls from time to time asking be about bees, and they actually turn out to be wasps. There are many many different species of wasp throughout the world but the one that concerns people in North America and Europe is known just as a wasp in Europe and a yellow jacket, or meat bees in the United States.A wasp trap is a great asset in the fall when wasps become a real problem for picnickers, and beekeepers alike. I'm sure you're familiar with the experience of trying to protect your sandwiches and drinks from their onslaught. Beehives are also vulnerable to attack as the wasps seek anything sweet. Weak bee colonies can have trouble defending themselves and sometimes are completely decimated. These problems can be reduced by attracting wasps away from picnics or hives by making homemade wasp traps. The bait in the traps must not attract bees so sugar or honey is out. A small lump of canned dog food is ideal since it's of no interest to honeybees, but is good and fragrant which is appealing to wasps. Get a quart size plastic water or soda bottle and remove the top. Cut off the top quarter of the bottle with a craft knife or scissors, just below the point where the neck ends and the sides become straight. Place the lump of dog food inside the bottle, invert the top portion and push it down inside the main section of the bottle. Stand the bottle upright in a convenient place where it can easily be found by marauding wasps. Passing wasps follow the fragrance of the dog food down into the bottle. When the wasp has eaten it's, last, meal of dog food it attempts to fly back to the nest, but is unable to negotiate the inverted neck of the soda bottle. If there are many wasps in the area the bottle will become clogged with bodies within a day or two. Rather than open the homemade wasp trap and empty out the bodies, running the risk that you'll release some surviving, enraged wasps, I suggest you make a new trap and discard the old one in the trash. Sometimes you may encounter a wasp nest in a hole in the ground. Often the common wasp will nest in a disused mouse hole. This type of nest is easy to deal with. Simply find a small plastic or glass bottle and push it firmly into the hole. Make sure the hole is blocked, but not obscured so light can still enter the entrance of the nest. It seems that if the hole is blocked with soil, the wasps will dig their way out. However the wasps will not dig out if light is still allowed down the hole. The wasps will quickly perish by suffocation. Leave Homemade Wasp Trap an return Home. Click here to sign up for our Free Beekeeping Course |
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