[Market-farming] Yellow jackets
Linda A
L_Amico at msn.com
Mon Sep 3 19:29:12 EDT 2007
It's possible that their nests are in the ground. We had a nest in our iris
bed last year & there were tons of them.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eliza Fletcher" <eliza28 at cpcinternet.com>
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Sent: Monday, September 03, 2007 4:49 PM
Subject: [Market-farming] Yellow jackets
> 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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