Yellow jacket trap

[Smokin Don]

If you feed hummingbirds you will attract yellow jackets too. One way to trap them is use a plastic soda bottle. Punch some holes about 1 inch from the bottom; pour some orange pop in the bottom and hang up. I used a phillips screw driver and did 4 holes.

I found a set of three glass bottle wasp traps that are nice to hang up, they look a little better than the soda bottles. They have holes in the bottom the yellow jackets enter but can’t escape; they only fly up.
I add a little sugar to the pop too that helps attract them.

The one below I just cleaned and refilled yesterday; I just checked and it has 5 dead yellow jackets in it.



Smokin Don

[sliding_billy]

Now if I could only get a reliable fly trap.

[muebe]

Good idea Don. Thanks.

[Las Vegan Cajun]

Great idea!!!

[LostArrow]

Now if I could only get a reliable fly trap.

Empty water bottle, put about 2 oz cheep red wine & leave uncapped, put out several around the area you are in.
When full simply cap & throw away.
Red wine is more aromatic than pop & a better attractant.

[spuds]

Nice traps.

[Smokin Don]

Red wine is more aromatic than pop & a better attractant.

I will not have a bunch of drunk yellow jackets and flies!  Don

[teesquare]

Red wine is more aromatic than pop & a better attractant.

I will not have a bunch of drunk yellow jackets and flies!  Don

I would be more worried about the drunk neighbors splayed out on the front yard...but - maybe that is just a Southern thing... .

[pz]

Red wine is more aromatic than pop & a better attractant.

I can attest to this. If I don't sit in a screen enclosed area this time of year, I'll have some kind of flying bug in my wine glass within minutes!

[LostArrow]

Red wine is more aromatic than pop & a better attractant.

I will not have a bunch of drunk yellow jackets and flies!  Don

I would be more worried about the drunk neighbors splayed out on the front yard...but - maybe that is just a Southern thing... .

I resemble that remark