Skip to Content.
Sympa Menu

nafex - Re: [NAFEX] yellowjackets

nafex@lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: North American Fruit Explorers mailing list at ibiblio

List archive

Chronological Thread  
  • From: paul simon <paul.simon@tcs.wap.org>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] yellowjackets
  • Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 21:30:01 -0500

Here in central Maryland we have a giant yellow jacket (giantus Vespus, or something) that tears up my apples up every fall. I only have six bearing trees so far. They take a almost ripe fruit amd hollow it out,working on 4 or 5 fruit at a time, leaving nothing but the shell, aided by the common yellow jacket. Come a rain, all these fruit start rotting. I hate to keep the fruit covered with insecticide all the time, and don't even know if that stops them. Can catch some with y j traps, but not enought.

I like to let the apples fully ripen on the trees, picking them as I use them or give them away. Still have aphids earlier, never see the y j going after them.

I predict that we will have a late spring, plentiful showers, moderate temperatures, and a late killing frost this year.

Paul S. 6b zone




Maybe it depends on the yellowjackets? If you don't have trouble with hornets or paperwasps I agree it's not the way you're behaving around them. But the yellowjackets here only sting if they think they're endangered. They're certainly Yankee yellowjackets; but maybe they're not the same kind.

--Rivka
Finger Lakes NY; zone 5 mostly

On Tuesday, February 11, 2003, at 08:11 PM, list@ginda.us wrote:

Self defense, nothing. All stinging things will sting if you bump into their nest or swat them. The thing I don't like about yellow jackets is that they will often sting if you just walk around near them. That and that they gather around my supper. These are Yankee yellow jackets.

Honey bees, bumble bees, paperwasps, hornets, are all mild-mannered friendly bugs - never have any trouble with them.

Ginda

_______________________________________________
nafex mailing list
nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Most questions can be answered here:
http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/nafex
File attachments are accepted by this list; please do not send binary files, plain text ONLY!
Message archives are here:
https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/nafex
To view your user options go to: http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/options/nafex/XXXX@XXXX (where XXXX@XXXX is YOUR email address)
NAFEX web site: http://www.nafex.org/





Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.

Top of Page