Yellow Jacket Trap

[D_N_G]

These things have already started up around here. Gonna try this ASAP






http://alaskaoutdoorjournal.com/Depa...wjacket50.html

Tip #50 Grandpa Kipp's Sure-Fire Yellow Jacket Trap!



My grandpa turned me onto this sure-fire yellow jacket eliminator about 50 years ago when I was just a youngster. I've observed its efficiency in removing all the yellow jackets from our campsite in a matter of a single day and before the week was over the entire campground was free of these hostile pests that make camping and other outdoor activities miserable. This method is NON-TOXIC and for the most part pet and wildlife friendly due to the harmless components that are used to build the "system." There are quite a few commercial products on the market to eliminate yellow jackets but this one doesn't cost anything and I can guarantee its an extremely effective way to rid your yard or campsite of the yellow hoards in just a day or two.
You will need the following components:

Plastic dish pan or wash basin.
A tablespoon of liquid dish soap, preferably non-scented.
3 sticks about 13 inches long.
2 or 3 tie wires.
A 3 or 4 inch piece of wire.
12 inches of string.
A piece of raw fish.
Make a tripod out of the sticks and tie wires as shown in the photo.
Bend the short piece of wire into a hook shape and attach the string.
Add about 1 or 2 inches of water to the dish pan and mix the liquid soap in the water. Stir SLOWLY - you DON'T want any soap bubbles floating on the water.
Insert the fish meat on the wire hook.
Tie the string to the top of the tripod so that the meat is hanging ONE HALF INCH above the water level in the pan.
Do Not get soapy water on any portion of the fish!

How It Works: The yellow jackets love fish and will begin to cut off small pieces to take back to the nest. In their "excitement" of buzzing around the bait a few will occasionally hit the water. The soap in the water breaks the surface tension of the waterproof coating on the yellow jacket and it instantly sinks in the water and drowns in a few seconds. Some yellow jackets will successfully haul a piece of meat back to the nest and tell all the other gatherers in the nest where this great food source is. Soon all the wasps from the nest will be working on this fish and over a period of time, all will eventually make mistakes and either fall off the fish and into the water or bump other wasps flying around and knock themselves in the drink, then its curtains for them too. It only takes a day or two to wipe out nearly every yellow jacket in your area.

Put the trap on a table or other high area outside so that kids and pets will not be able to get close to it. A piece of fish with vertical sides works best for having the insects fall off easier.

[maruchan]

awesome thanks for the tip we got tons of them.. now if only there was a mosquito one

[napalm]

That's a beautiful idea. I wish I had a yellow jacket infestation just so I could watch them suffer.

[mollipen]

I hate wasps, and would love to kill every one of them that I see... unfortunately, they're an important part of the ecosystem, so I can't tell myself that they're evil and just kill them without a second thought.

[M]

I've seen a version of this made with a mountain dew bottle. They left about a third of the pop left, cut a hole in the top, fished some string into it, cut some big holes in the top side of the bottle, and tied some fish bait to the string.

they'd eat till they gorged them selves and fall into the pop, it would stick their wings together and they'd drown.

the next morning the bottle was full of everything. it wasnt just wasps, as I recall it was all sorts of bugs. very nice way to keep them away for the duration.

[Glitch]

Wasp genocide -- yay!

I'm definitely going to try this sometime.

[Fe 26]

I hate wasps, and would love to kill every one of them that I see... unfortunately, they're an important part of the ecosystem, so I can't tell myself that they're evil and just kill them without a second thought.

fuck em. Fuck wasp, hornets, yellow jackets, bees, and japanese demon hornets.

[Jester]

japanese demon hornets.

You know, they actually eat those fuckers here. They also season their sake with poisonous vipers. The things you do for entertainment when your women aren't any good in the sack.

[Fe 26]

If the japanese actually hunt down wild japanese hornets to eat them, well, I tip my hat to their huge fucking balls. Those things are 2 inches long, can destroy an entire bee hive, shoot flesh melting acid from their asses, and go straight for your face.

http://www.riotvideo.com/30_Japanese...,000_Bees.html

[Yoshi]

Putting raw fish in your campsite seems like a good way to attract a bear or three. I'll live with the yellow jackets, thanks.