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  • From: <dmnorton@royaloakfarmorchard.com>
  • To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] yellow jackets, help!
  • Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 02:01:53 -0500

Donna,

We use gallon plastic cider jugs (same as milk jugs) filled with cider (any pure juice with sugar will work). I generally cut 4 upside down "V's", one on each side and push the top of the V into the jug about 3/4 of an inch. Be sure to leave the top on the jug and you will trap yellowjackets for sure. We put one on top of each of our trash receptacles (they have flat tops), all around the top posts of our patio fence, all around our snack shop deck and scattered throughout our play area. We empty them each night and refill them each morning. They have worked for us for years. Once the first scout finds the jug, they don't fly in, but instead goes and gets the rest of the hive....then they all fly in like fools!! It's kinda of fun to watch how the scout flies around the jug, lands on it, never goes in, flies away and then comes back a few minutes later with he whole gang.

Dennis Norton
Royal Oak Farm Orchard, Zone 5
http://www.royaloakfarmorchard.com
http://www.theorchardkeeper.blogspot.com
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Betty Mayfield" <bmayfield@opusnet.com>
To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 1:18 PM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] yellow jackets, help!


Donna,

Several years ago during a bad yellowjacket summer the Washington State Parks Department placed milk jugs partially filled with sugar water at intervals in their freeway rest stop areas. The theory was that the pests would drown themselves. I have never heard statistics on how well it worked, but it might be worth trying.

Betty

At 06:35 AM 7/18/2008, Donna wrote:
We have never seen the like of yellow jackets. I take that back, once we
did in the 1980's when we set the kids to killing queen wasps in the spring.
They kept count and killed 600. That year Mother Nature filled the vacuam
with yellow jackets. It is an experiment we will never repeat! Anyway, the
yellow jackets are so thick that I have been stung twice already, in July
when they are not normally a problem. The first time was on my right index
finger, as I stood on a ladder cutting a branch from a hickory to try some
summer budding. The second time was dusk, one flew inside my shirt as I was
walking along. Picking blackberries has required examining each fruit from
all sides before touching it. We have discovered that MOST of them go to
bed fairly early so we can pick blueberries. I have seen two holes where
skunks have dug out nests in the woods, but the remaining nests are surely
growing by the day.
We have never managed to make a yellow jacket trap that worked. We
bought one at Tractor Supply that has collected a total of 2 in a week. Do
you all have any suggestions? Donna

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