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  • From: "Linda A" <L_Amico AT msn.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Yellow jackets
  • Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 19:29:12 -0400

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>
To: <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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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