[NAFEX] yellow jacket traps

Alan Haigh alandhaigh at gmail.com
Fri Jul 18 17:09:12 EDT 2008


Home Depot usually sells a simple reusable trap this time of the year that I
refill with Chinese apple juice concentrate instead of expensive lures.  No
meat necessary, works fine but you'll need at least fifty of the suckers to
make a big dent.  You dump out the drowned wasps about once every 5 days.

Less conveniently but much more economically you can cut 1 litre  plastic
soda bottles a couple of inches below the top and invert it into a volcano
shape.  Fill with a quarter can of apple juice concentrate and 3 parts water
and place all around your property.  Works as well as the commercial trap
but is difficult to hang from trees which is what I use them for.

If I hang 2 of them on a medium small free-standing fruit tree they usually
stop damaging fruit and become much less a threat while harvesting.
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