Yellow Jacket Wasp Trap, Comparison of store bought traps, making your own is the BEST, Bait used.
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2018
- Yellow jacket wasp traps are popular because so many people are annoyed by their in-your-face visits to picnics, honeybee yards, and bird feeders.
The most convenient control methods are disposable traps like Rescue (East of the Rockies) non-toxic all-in-one lure traps.
Commercially produced and sold wasp/hornet traps have to be sized right for marketing, storage, shipping and many other factors which may reduce and limit more effective designs.
It's fun to test and investigate which bait will attract wasps at different times of the year. It's also entertaining to devise large trap systems that exploit natural wasp behavior.
Wasps will investigate every tiny hole and opening in a structure.
By providing a tiny hole in a box that is dark inside, we have the opportunity to draw them in with food-related scents.
Once inside, they naturally will follow the light and are prone to enter clear or translucent bottles with a central riser or cone shape.
Once the optimum entry hole size and placement is identified, the next thing is cutting a standardized hole for the exit/trap entry.
After all of that is worked out, a more permanent bottomless box can be constructed from wood, metal, plastic etc. The material must be absolutely opaque in order to create that light/dark contrast.
I found the peanut-butter pretzel container to be the best "collector" as the plastic is stronger and it has a wide mouth lid through which I drilled a 2" diameter hole for the vertical riser which was made by cutting the top/bottom off of a 16 oz clear plastic bottle, then overlapping the plastic forming a cylinder that perfectly matched the 2" hole in the dark brown threaded lid. I used a soldering iron to "spot-weld" the plastic together simply by partially melting into both layers.
Cardboard for practice, wood for the final design is my preference.
The yellow-jackets were entering the system with great regularity.
So, I thought it would be something fun to share with UA-camrs.
After the bottles have enough wasps in them, simply drop them into a plastic bucket of hot tap water and they are finished. Clean and replace the bottle, or simply install the new one. No need to wash before using a soda bottle, that residue also attracts yellow jackets. - Домашні улюбленці та дикі тварини
"Yellow Jackets can't read" LOL! Classic Mr. Dunn! Enjoyed the video Sir.
Those baggy traps are ment for spring time, when the queens come out of hibernation as it attracts queens the most. If you catch a lot of queens in the spring the less hives you have in the fall. Eventually it’ll get to the point where your only catching a few queens and you have a perimeter of no yellowjackets. Making it much safer for your beehives.
Thanks Kellie :)
Exactly what I was looking for, straight to the point and proof of concept. Thanks for sharing this!
Great work. Fascinating tip on the use of dark and light spaces. I created a regular wasp trap but with an escape. Once it was buzzing with wasps an their colonies were all aware of the local food source I taped up the exit. This way it wasn't only stray scouts that were caught but a huge number of foragers.
Wish i had seen this before spending so much money getting the commercial products that dont work.. witk a minute and a half of placing my home madevtrap i had 2 wasps caught.. good job
Great job !!! Thanks for the video !
I love your tests, this one especially is great!
Thank you so much!
No, no sir, *_Thank YOU!_*
And it turned out nice again! Yellow jackets like Velkome with a V and a k. 😎
I finally found this.
Thank you.
I building these all over at 4am I'm excited 😊👍
Have fun! It is often entertaining to use their behavior to our trapping favor.
Thanks sir, this came right on time for me. My ER outstanding bill of over $1k for the last yellowjacket stings still sitting on my table and I got me here looking for solution to get ride of a YJ. nest under my recycling bin. I can't even go near my compost bin😢 I will be making as much as I needed to start with. Tumbs up video👍, thanks for your help
Hey Fred, great older video. Yellow jackets are brutal this year in WNY, I can’t believe how many there are, hot dry summer must be the reason.
For a Second I was afraid you 'd forgotten about the Welcome Sign , fiiiuu Yellow Jackets don't come in if they're not Welcome 😂😂😂😂😂
Love the sign lol
That is a damn good idea! Thanks!
Thanks for sharing
"Welcome..."
Very funny... kkkk
Kudos. Well done.
Have a Rescue trap baited with raw chicken that's doing great but needed more. Built this out of a small water bottle and a small Amazon box. Put a couple pieces of dog food and two slices of salami inside the box and had 6 wasps trapped within minutes. Awesome design.
LOL!! My little bottles of certain death 😆😆😆
Brilliant! Many thanks for sharing. 👍 👌✌
Thanks for watching!
@@FrederickDunn I’m trying to lure wasps away from my hummingbird feeder and LOVE your video. I made one, and trapped only one wasp in four hours. I see many approaching the holes and then buzzing away. Has this anything to do with the alert hormone?
The plastic bags with liquids are extremely effective in the spring, try them then and you will see a massive difference. We found the Founding Queens were more attracted to them then workers were.
Thanks, I wish they would put that in their listing and product description. A simple statement like "most effective in spring" would be helpful and I could have saved time and money.
@@FrederickDunn I agree, we caught many queen Yellow jackets, rarely a paper wasp and the odd black hornet with 2 of these bags, it was about may when they were out so a bit late in the season but still got the off foraging queen. We captured about 20-30 in a few days and the effectiveness died down in June.
Love the solution.
Try adding a water container with hog poop (foul smell) inside a similar, separate cardboard box. This should attract black flies. Place 40’ away from the house. The water will evaporate (rate depends on amount of water and ambient temperature); so, it needs to refilled every so often with a new mix.
interesting...
Awsome.
Thanks :)
Genius.
Exactly what my mother said when I'd spill something :)
Great
I bought a yellow jacket trap it's a plastic tube with the same top that you're ones have with the bag and you are correct the formula of the mixture they give you does not work I dumped it out and put straight up cheap pop in there and I started to hammer them within one day it was over half full of dead yellow jackets the formula was up for almost a week and only had five yellow jackets
I will have to buy a couple bottles of soda, due to the fact that we do not drink soda, or i will just pour it out. I need to try this! I am highly allergic to wasp stings and have a heavy presence around my front door. I want to have this ready to go as soon as the N.M. spring winds slow down. Those bait bags did zilch for me last year. Thank you for this post!
This other video claimed wasps liked orange fanta, so you could buy those 2 liters.
Tried plastic bottles with beer and meat in no luck so i will try this
3:03 yellow jackets cant read lmao
:)
I've had really good luck with those rescue yellow jacket traps while camping in CA. I always buy one or two for camping trips and they fill up in a day or two and keep the yellow jackets off our food. Maybe your species just doesn't like what they have to offer. I've also had good luck making traps with bacon hanging in them....of course, it's a waste of good bacon. :)
Glad they worked for you, they fail here.
Several bees in there, what was your bait?
Those yellow Aspectek ones, you reviewed last year I think, with no bait (because it leaks out) sitting on top of my hives are filling up with wax moths 😁
Yes, we're getting lots of wax moths with those also. They must also be attracted to the nectar and I'm glad they are working that way. I wish the company that makes those would have deeper basins on them. Other than that, they are still my favorite commercial design.
I see there's a new design without the leaking seam running across the bottom
a.co/d/1CL8HMO
I've also bought the PIC version
a.co/d/aHnvj3l
Rescue WHY traps work great early spring for catching the queens.
Try using fish scraps, no leaks just lots of yellowjackets!
I bought some of those same traps a couple years ago and my results were the exact same as yours.....epic failure. I'm in south western Ohio.
I've not tried your style of diy traps but I have tried just the 2 liter bottle with cut and inverted top. But what I call "stank bait" inside. Worked very well.
Great idea...Do many get back out of the bottles?
Yes, some do.
KISS wins out a high % of times. Love it! Thinking about going commercial?? Or is it patentable???
Hi John, not going commercial, just sharing my ideas and results. Patent lawyers are expensive :)
Frederick Dunn... Yes! Been there. ☹️
I wonder do they emit a vibration or pheromone call of distress to other yellow jackets that draws that consistent stream of them? We had a nest outside of my kitchen window (up in the soffetting) this year. Took two trips from pest control over a two-week span to get them all.
They don't "call" each other in, but they are able to mark the entrance with pheromone so others from the same colony know where to locate the food resource.
What do you think of the practice of mixing borax with protein foods - meat, tuna, etc. and putting it out for them to take home to feed the colony and the queen? (never any sweet, of course, so as not to get the bees). I've seen some pretty heavy, aggressive populations of yellow jackets thinned out this way.
Becuase I couldn't control where that goes, I would not personally do that. There are lots of predators that eat the wasps, and I'm not comfortable with going beyond focused control.
The trap you bought, I wonder if the angle of the entry is a problem. Going up or forward seems more likely to work rather than going down.
yellow jackets naturally go down into their hole and will make entry from any angle, so long as there is a food resource to access.
Ah, yes I forgot they ground nest too
Yellow jackets Can to read!
May i ask what you used as bait for the yellow jackets?
apple juice with some apple cider vinegar added. sometimes bacon
Hahaa! Little bottles of certain death! "Welcom YellowJackets! Hilarious! My 9 yr old son just had a massive panic attack when there was a yellow jacket in the truck. Wasnt funny.
Wow, that's terrible Brenda :(
Is bait necessary in the box trap?
Yes, they follow that scent to the trap, though they may occasionally simply explore the space, bait brings in the numbers!
Try a fuzzy bottom tablecloth flipped over to cover the boxes and protect them from rain. Maybe the ones landing on it will get their legs caught. I know hive beetles hate them. Some keepers cut them into 2 inch squares and put them in the corners of their hives. They get stuck and cant run away from the stinging bees.
How effective is this really? Like, there's still a nest somewhere close with thousands of them?
This removes scouts, it's not going to eliminate a nest. Since you know the location of a nest, if it's a threat to people or pets etc... remove the nest. This box system takes out hundreds of wasps each day... but then, it will also depend on the wasp population where you are. Time of year is also important regarding bait. It's now October, so they are after jelly and jam... but please add apple cider vinegar to deter the valuable honey bees. Grape Jelly or Orange Marmelade will attract the most wasps as they are all after sweet nectar.
So when the yellow jackets enter the inverted bottles, do they not figure out how to fly back through the bottle opening area?
They don't, because they instinctively fly towards the light.
@@FrederickDunn thanks so much! I am going to try your method this season. Yellowjacket "Baits" Motel ...they all check in, but can't check out.
How do you plan to remove from the bittke from the box?
i have ground hoke i outboiking hit water with soap into tge hoke but the hole bevome bigger and deep i put a stone on it but the stone fell thru because the hole really bigger. I put another one. I come back to check. My goodness bees still alive to come out more.
Are the bees around make? Inside the female?
Perhaps I make a bottle or so to put beside the hole for a while.
My bet is the they dig really big hole like an army on side of foundation of the basement. Must be huge one. Or I hope they die in the winter ? New England
How do I remove the bait? I just reach in and take it out, I lift the box.
Bald Face Hornets!!! How do I deal with them. They are feeding off my bees. Caught one in an aquarium net but can't sit all day trying to swat them down. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Are they nabbing live bees, or dead bees nearby the landing boards? If they are attacking colonies, then reduce the entrances. Possibly look into Hive-Gate inserts.
Do you catch Southern and Eastern yellow jackets in your trap?
Not sure if I'd recognize a Southern Yellow Jacket.
What bait did you use?
usually meat sources like hamburger, hotdog bits, bacon also works to draw in the meat eaters.
I want to use on hornets that have built a nest at the upper (R) side of the exterior door jamb of my office. How do I dispose of all these hornets in this bottle without getting stung?
Hi Dr. Vick, if you're trying to eliminate a nest, this isn't the way to do it. You can mix up two table spoons of Dawn Ultra Diswashing Soap into a single Gallon of water and put that into a sprayer, then spray that up into the hole of the paper wasp nest and it will take them out just fine, and if you use Dawn Ultra Free and Clear it is not harmful to the environment.
How do the wasps get trapped inside the bottles? Can't they just crawl back out?
The funnel shape disorients them.
Have you tried the trap designed by Shaun Woods?
If you're talking about his chicken trap? I don't personally like that... but Shawn is the king of trapping for sure!!!
@@FrederickDunn That makes sense! I'll keep my eyes peeled for any other homemade traps that might be useful for later this year when they start getting really protein-hungry!
Do you put any bait in there?
yes, on a plate.
@@FrederickDunn Thanks!
What attracts them to the boxes?
apple juice and bacon with a tiny dab of honey
@@FrederickDunn nice. Someone told me a 40 cent can of salmon fancy feast goes a long way, too.
Just a couple of tablespoons in each trap under a wet napkin.
That's interesting, cat food is really smelly, so I can imagine it attracts those protein hunters! Thanks for sharing that tip!
@@FrederickDunn I'm a fisherman. I notice the gut pile usually gets molested pretty bad, too. Thinking about using those small paper cups for ketchup and filling them up, then freezing them in a zip type bag for later use. Letting a few "escape" will bring more. Happy hunting!
They are definitely attracted to that kind of meat! Thanks for sharing and there are lots of materials that attract them. Also true about the scouts going back and bringing their friends! You're spot-on Kerplunk!
I'm confused. why can't they leave the same way they came in? did I miss something?
They "could" but they are naturally drawn to the light once inside the box. It's why when they get into a house, they fly to the windows. Same principal.
They're just dumb. The crab traps on deadliest catch work the same way. Also people use the same idea to catch minnows and such.
Do you feed the victims to your chickens?
Unfortunately, my chickens turn their noses up at wasps and don't eat them, But ants will carry them off fast.
I read somewhere that prior to around 1947 there were no yellow jackets in the United States at all. That is when they were accidentally introduced into this country. Your thoughts on this?
Hitlers soul split up into tiny parts and reincarnated as yellow jackets
Yellowjacket wasps are native to North America, but the species that is most commonly considered a pest, the European yellowjacket (Vespula germanica), was introduced to the United States in the late 1800s. It is thought to have arrived in the country accidentally, on ships from Europe.
The European yellowjacket is now widespread in the United States, and it is considered to be one of the most common and troublesome wasp pests. It is known for its aggressive behavior and its painful sting. Yellowjackets can build large nests in a variety of locations, including inside homes and businesses. They are also attracted to food and drinks, and they can be a nuisance at picnics and barbecues.
Hello Fred
Hello, Robert! Sorry it took five years to wave back at you!
@@FrederickDunn all good I know how busy you must be. Thank you very much Fred you have a great evening.
Instead of a cardboard box, what about one of those plastic totes that way you don't have to replace the boxes when it rains
They overheat and the wasps won't enter.
@@FrederickDunn then all you need is something to defer the heat but now it's probably getting expensive.
They also make plastic totes in clear then maybe spray paint them an opaque color or line the inside of the clear tub with cardboard? Great video I need to make these with something that's not cardboard. Loved this tutorial! Thanks
Poor bee was stuck in there...
Oh hell no! That's WAY too many wasps around you. Use a flame thrower and get them all! Making my skin crawl.
They do not work all that well homemade traps way to go we’ve had a really bad year with the yellow jackets I have one nest in my attic in another in my wood yard
Thumbs down for the honeybee inside. Yellow jackets are pollinators too.
Hi Phillip, you're more than welcome to give a thumbs down, it's a free world.
not the bald faced ones-they dont have any benefits for their existence
Honeybee workers have a life of about 30 days. To have an effective yellow jacket trap and catch only one honeybee is a major win in my book. Besides, as a honeybee keeper, I know that yellow jackets and some wasps will attack a hive and steal honey.
If you're still experimenting with traps, I ran into another video that caught a bunch, maybe it could work for you? ua-cam.com/video/7FhifTGKtUQ/v-deo.html
Yes, I really enjoy Shawn's videos, I try to cover ground that others aren't doing. He refers to all of them as "bees" but I know what he means. Thanks for sharing! Lots of room for creative innovation. Thanks Joseph!
It's incredible how stupid these things are. Like how can they be smart enough to enter, but dumb enough not to be able to find their way out the way they came in? It's baffling to me.
Cruel way to get rid of them.!while I dislike wasp as much as the next person,they have a purpose here& there is better way to rid them
What's your "better way" to get rid of them? You are always welcome to share your own methods.
I’ve used traps too and you basically don’t make much of a dent. If you trap a hundred in a day, it doesn’t do anything about the nearby nest that cranks out 200 new ones a day. Find the nest. Drown it at night with soapy water. Problem solved.
what kind of soap works best and best way to apply? My nests are under my deck in hard to reach spots that are like tunnels up above
Michelle Huber Dawn dishwashing liquid is what I have used in the past. A couple of gallons of water with 1/2 cup of the soap. At night, pour all of it down the hole in the ground. If you are treating actual yellow jackets (not paper wasps) and they are not in the ground, then soapy water won’t be enough. And if they are difficult to reach, hire someone out to take care of it. They are way too dangerous to deal with without equipment.
How in the Hell can you stand that close to that trap? You absolute lunatic 😰
They aren't at all defensive at feeding stations. :)
Those store bought things are TRASH! I've never caught anything in those crap traps!