[Market-farming] Yellow jackets

Eliza Fletcher eliza28 at cpcinternet.com
Mon Sep 3 16:49:41 EDT 2007


The last two years, we've been chased out or our raspberry bushes by 
hordes (and I mean hordes!) of yellow jackets.  Ordinarily, we can pick 
for 6+ weeks, but this year we were only able to pick for about 2 weeks 
before the bushes became too treacherous. 

My husband has hunted high and low for nests with no success.  We have 
many traps set, both the pheremone-type and large buckets of soapy water 
baited with apples.  The traps work, in that they've successfully 
caught  hundreds of yellow jackets, but still they come . . . 

Does any one know a strategy for keeping yellow jackets out of the berry 
bushes?

Eliza Fletcher
Moscow, ID



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