I took a sting to the eyeball from one of these when I was about 6 years old. Woke up next day feeling like my eye had been replaced with a tennis ball, It was 3 or 4 weeks before I was able to open it again. Their demise pleases me.
I kill them with my hands if need be. Just clap your hands on them. They can't sting and you can crush them in the air. My hands usually hurt because I clap so hard.
I got a sting to the white of my eye too. I had a black ring around my eye halfway down my cheek for a while and couldn't open my eye for at least 4 or 5 days. It suuuuucked
@@fallenangelwi25 yes, i say let go of using tech and energy to explore space, build power armour! ...li po batteries, with hydraulic something lol. ...
how is it possible he didn't get stung? sometimes i sit outside on my porch and the wasps come flying at my face meanwhile this guy is grabbing the trap with bare hands
Shada ,, I'm allergic to bees. I'm descencitising myself.. and becoming knowledgeable.. I'm not so afraid anymore. Although wearing headphones makes it a real interesting experience.. lol
I know, I know, every animal serves a function, but I still think we can all agree that every hornet and wasp could die and we'd find a way to cope with the loss...
In cases where I found the nest, the trusty vacuum cleaner trick has always worked like a champ. Just place the hose opening near the entrance, set to "on" then plug it in. The jackets do not like the sound or vibration and will relentlessly attack the hose opening, getting sucked in. If you have a shop vac, you can also put soapy water in the canister. I've wiped out entire in-wall nests in a couple of hours this way.
I thought I had a bee hive in my wall and probably did but got in inspection scope and was told they have been taken over by yellow jackets. I like the vacuum idea. Think I will take a video first, pretty interesting.
Watched a few of these bee keeping videos now. Giant Murder Hornets, yellow jackets....I had no idea how hard it is for bee keepers to keep bees safe and not stressed. I have a new found respect for bee keepers. Keep up the good work!
The thing about wasps/yellow jackets is, they react to motion. If you flail and make quick movements, sure as shit they'll sting you. If you go slow and pay attention, they wont if they aren't already agitated.
Great job but I think your drawing the yellow jackets closer to your hives by having the Yellow Jacket trap directly on top of your beehives. Put it 50 yards away... they'll find it.
You need maybe 20 more traps, and not right at the nest boxes, to draw them away and kill larger numbers. I love what you have done and thank you for sharing it.
Meat is good but there’s nothing that beats fish. Any kind seems to work but salt water fish are enough to drive them nuts. This is a great trap. Thanks I’ll build one tomorrow. Might add some electricity just to get them back for my last sting. Man I hate yellow jackets 🐝
Natelostgetoverit CryBaby good gravy that’s terrible! You must live in a hive. The poor kids must have been miserable. I just got stung in the hand and I thought ah no big deal. In an hour it looked like a pumpkin with fingers. I hate those suckers. We kill them when ever we can
Natelostgetoverit CryBaby a woman I worked with was at a company picnic we were having a she picked up her 7-up off the table and there were a bunch of yellow jackets that had gone into it. She got stung in the tongue , the Emt’s said 7 Times ( don’t know how they counted that) , but her tongue swelled up and looked like a football. Never saw anything like that before or since , but it darn near suffocated her. Poor girl. You can believe that’s one mistake I never make after seeing that. Look before you drink. !!👀🐝
When I was 12 I tied my horse to an Alder tree for awhile so I could help my brother lift some supplies into his tree house. I heard the horse begin to stomp and snort and whinny and looked down to see her pulling at her bridle in the midst of a cloud of yellow jackets. There happened to be a nest of them among the roots of the tree. I ran into the angrily buzzing cloud and was able to use my pocket knife to cut the reins and free her, but my sojourn among those little bastards left me with about 100 stings on my face, down my shirt and up my pants legs. Have no pity on these vicious little shits. KILL THEM ALL.
that information is good advice for horse and other pet owners to look carefully before tying up an animal as well as being a potential scene for a Stephen King novel.
I HATE! bees all bee's with a big passion! I want bees to be EXTINCT. We don't need honey when we have sugar. There noise they make when they fly is so unpleasant. I mean no offence to people who do like bees 🤢🤮. Bees are just not something I like ..
You must have had a couple of nest around. I'll give you another tip - get yourself a can of cat food, and mix in some Fipronil. Fipronil is commonly sold as Frontline flea and tick treatment for dogs. Buy the one for large dogs, and mix one tube with the cat food. You want to spread it out on pieces of plywood and set it out at first light. Leave it out where the nests are - you can divide it into three clumps. By the end of the day, the poisoned meat is gone, and the workers have brought it back to the nests where they share it with the others. In two days the nests are dead. WARNING - this method is technically illegal (off-label) since Fipronil is poisonous to fish and birds, so you want to be sure to keep it away from water, and away from places where the birds might peck at it. I created a wire cage to let the yellowjackets through, but keep other things out. You're welcome.
It would work pretty well, as most bees are nectar and pollen eaters. Any of the predatory flying insects that are 'meat' eaters would be effected. Just make sure it stays inside a wire cage, as described, to prevent unwanted critters from getting at it, and do not leave it out overnight.
I had huge YJ problem last year. So I did a little research and here is what I did. I hung 3 Rescue traps in first warm days in the spring in bee yard. And I caught 32 queens in the spring. According to Internet each queen has something like 1000 workers in the fall, you do the math. Very little jackets this fall. Great success!
I made a trap in a plastic cup using %5 Sevin dust, mixed with some sugar,it worked.the Sevin dust is powerful by itself but the sugar draws them to the dust,the Sevin dust destroy them
628DirtRooster That becomes a very foul soup in short order, but then again chickens eat anything they can cram down their necks. They might eat them after all. Lol
I have a couple of visiting peacocks that will walk up to the YJ' trap and eat the ones flying around. However peacocks also eat gardens, grapes, green fruit etc . .
At Last, I got rid of a large colony of yellow jacket wasps nesting between the roof and the ceiling 2 days ago. The wasps found a way in through 3 small gaps in the soffit and the nest was deep inside the roof and not accessible. I sealed the gaps with silicone sealant but they seem to find another way in. 1. First method , before I looked up UA-cam for hints, I tried to zap them with an electric device shaped like a table tennis bat. Managed to kill about 120 wasps but the wasp population was large and they still kept coming. 2. A few days later tried the method described on one of these channels using a cooked piece of chicken and a rectangular container partly filled with soapy water. Managed to kill about 100 wasps over 3-4 days. The wasps were still breeding fast and they kept coming. 3. This time I mixed 1 teaspoon of honey and 1 teaspoon of Borax powder (more if needed). I dabbed the gooey mixture at the wasp’s entrance in the soffit at 3 places. You can see the wasps quickly start feeding on the mixture. You do it say twice a day (if you have time)as the honey/Boraz mixture gets consumed quickly. It does not kill the wasp immediately which is great because the wasp then goes in to feed the larvae. After about 5 days of doing this the wasp population gets reduced drastically. After about 8 days, the whole wasp population is gone. 4. No honey bees were affected because they will not go near the wasp entrance in the soffit. You can wipe off any excess honey/Borax on the soffit. 5. Disadvantage of 3/. is that you have to do this regularly over a few days. 6. Make sure you wear a hoodie, long pants, socks and shoes, gloves, face mask and face shield. You need a long enough ladder to get to the soffit. 7. Feels good and at peace when you finally do something that worked.
Neat way to kill the yellow jackets, thanks for the tip. However, no need to wear anything when you do this at sunset or later. Wasps become inactive during the night.
I gave up on the sprays. The spray/foam never go deep into the nest. Found that the aerosol flea canisters work great. The aerosol penetrates all the crevices and goes way deep.
do you realize that honeybees don't pollinate everything, their numbers cause decline of other pollinators, killing yellow jackets don't save honeybees..
To find the yellow jacket nests setup 3 feeders approx 100 to 200 feet apart and use triangulation to determine the exact location of the nests by watching the wasps return home with their booty from each feeder. I use this technique to locate nests. Works every time!
@@LupeSunglass I have never had that happen, unless I am in their flight path to the trap. Even then, they just usually bounce off instead of trying to sting. Experiment by painting the funnel black, so the yellow jackets will see light straight down and go through the opening, rather than trying to get through the funnel wall. You could also use a sport drink bottle for your funnel - which would provide a larger opening into the trap. Even with such a large opening, I have rarely seen yellow jackets crawl up and out.
I've got a friend crazy like that. He had a wasp nest take hold in the side of his house, and he'd go up there and start beating on the side of the house and they'd come out and......not fucking sting him somehow!!! I don't know how he does it!! I came over to pick him up one day. He was sitting on the tailgate of a truck, very close to the house, slumped over from the heat of a 90+-degree day, and wasps were everywhere right above him!! When he would raise up and sit up straight, they were all flying around his head and he just sat there!!! He didn't swing like i'd be doing, so he never got stung, but just the sight is something I'll never forget!! He saw me pull up, got off the truck, and walked on over like nothing!
I recently moved to an area with lots of yellow jackets and wasps, so I've been reading up on them. When devising traps for these pests, it's good to plan for both types: the ones drawn to sweet aromas (soda pop, fruit juice, ripe fruit) and the ones drawn to animal protein (e.g. BBQ ribs, deviled eggs, and your grandson's baloney sandwich!).
Thanks for the video. Great trap. When I put out swarm lures I've noticed that if there's a smell of "death" near a lure the bees might scout the lure, but I haven't had a lure this year that was adopted by a swarm when the lure had the smell of death within a hundred feet.. I had a couple of buzzards raise a chick near a lure location. They brought the chick road kill etc and the bees stayed away from those lures.
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We do a similar thing at the national park usually with liter soap bottles but we just cut a couple near the top portion of the bottle and glue a sponge on the twist top and add pheromone to it. Mostly we do that to monitor numbers. For the nests though might I suggest a strategy we do at the park attract some to an area with a can of tuna or something like that then take a small piece of jerky and tie thread around it and at the end put something light but reflective or white, generally something that really stands out. After the jacket picks up that piece, well better have your running shoes on. We have to do this because we have restrictions that don't really allow us to use poison bait, so I'm not certain what you're allowed to do but the upside is you don't get fat doing this.
Yes, I saw a video where someone filled it with way more water and Dawn dish soap. They die way faster. Just curious as to why you didn’t put it further away from the honey hives? Enough meat in a few traps on the ground would attract them away from the hives and give less stress to your honey bees.
Thanks for the tip David. I built one of these and put it on the tongue of my enclosed trailer about 20 ft from my hives and it drew every yellow jacket away from the hives. My trap is about 3" deep in yellow jackets and many more on the inside walls. Great cheap fix to a problem. Thanks
I made two of these traps. One I posted about 15-20 feet of the hives, and a second one about 50+ feet away. The second trap caught very few......VERY few. But the closer one caught hundreds.
Jeans Roses The YJs were already visiting the hives, because they wanted to steal from the bees. The trap is more enticing, so the bees are left alone.
@@dabprod4962 with that large trap..'ll fill it with syrup,a sweet soda,mix it with some liquid insecticide such as the liquid sevin..they will feed from the bait,it will dry them out, the yellow jackets will die off.
Richard Peterson it'd be worse approaching their nest. They get defensive about their home, whereas these guys are just busy following their noses for that trap.
Here in CT our yellow jackets actually hunt you down after death. I've been stung 5 times all by dead yellow jackets. Even death does not stop their wake of devistation and sadism. We had a nest and they killed a stray cat that came near. Just absolutely wrecked the poor Kitty in seconds
I was out playing paintballs 2 summers ago, I was moving on the flank of a group of unaware players, I slide behind a steel drum which was placed inside of a dump truck tire about 40 feet behind the groups little bunker they where chilling in, and I start spraying, then the return spray comes in as I take cover, it rattles up the barrel which happened to contain a big hornet nest.
I've got a friend crazy like that. He had a wasp nest take hold in the side of his house, and he'd go up there and start beating on the side of the house and they'd come out and......not fucking sting him somehow!!! I don't know how he does it!! I came over to pick him up one day. He was sitting on the tailgate of a truck, very close to the house, slumped over from the heat of a 90+-degree day, and wasps were everywhere right above him!! When he would raise up and sit up straight, they were all flying around his head and he just sat there!!! He didn't swing like i'd be doing, so he never got stung, but just the sight is something I'll never forget!! He saw me pull up, got off the truck, and walked on over like nothing!
Yea I agree they’ll start doing airstrikes on you and attack your pets sting the house get in your house and follow you around the yard shit there enough to give you nightmares
I got stung at a young age I was afraid of bees and there cousins threw my teens. I am 31 now but it took me along time not to be scared anymore! I give you beekeepers respect for your passion to manage bees!
Best way I found to get rid of yellow jackets. If you know where the nest is. Get a wet/dry shopvac , put a couple inches of water in it with dish detergent. Set the nozzle of the vacuum hose right next to the entrance. Leave it for a few hours and you will have a shopvac full of hornet soup
4:22 that orange wasp seems to be native to my area, i see them often. They are SCARY, has anyone ever be stung by one? If so was it worse than a regular yellow wasp?
That is a Red Paper Wasp, typically found in areas in the South, they are less aggressive than the hornets you see here, but the sting is supposed be more painful, the wasps can be identified by the long and skinny abdomen, while hornets can be identified for the short and more stocky abdomen.
Paper wasps are usually less aggressive than hornets, but because paper wasps build their nests near our homes or on our home, that leads to frequent conflict. Although many people dislike and hate wasps for good reasons, they can be beneficial for controlling other pests, so depending on the circumstances, keeping them around might not be a bad idea as long as they don't grow our of control. But paper wasps will never reach the massive numbers of say, bees or in this case hornets. Here in California, we have the European Paper Wasps, that are commonly referred to as 'Yellow Jacket' because of their colors resembling the real Yellowjackets like you see here. They fly around in our garden getting rid of the pests, and we have never had a problem, they did build a nest too close for comfort so unfortunately we to deal with that, but they had a decent size nest on our gate, and perhaps they knew me because I always watched them closely, one day we were lifting something, and we literally bumped the gate with them on their nest, less than 6 inches away, and they didn't even move, they just watched and there was at least 9 on there, so I have good experiences with them, have held some of them as well as bees, never had any issues.
My first encounter with yellow jackets was when I was 10 or 11. Went with my father to work (he works in the oil field) and we had to unlock this gate that was chained to a post. I unlocked it and as I was unwrapping the chain like 10-20 yellow jackets flew out of the post and chased me. I ran fast and didn’t get stung but they will pelt you. You’ll hear the terrifying “brpbrpbrp” as they whiz past your ear, truly terrifying.
Thank you so much ! I have a huge underground yellow jacket nest that I have poured 64 ounces of straight dish soap into (didn't work), covered the holes with food grade DE (didn't work), & was going to try pouring boiling water in the hive holes at dusk today. But I am definitely going to make some of your traps! I also tried a small storebought trap & it worked but the colony is just too huge.
It doesn’t seem like that’s going to happen. Experts are already strategizing plans to eradicate queens when worker hornets begin scouting for hives to raid early fall. Also, those hornets are used to warm, wet summers in japan. Washington may be wet, but you guys don’t have really warm summers.
Cal 99ers they don’t come to your table to sting you, they’re looking for food and if you just didn’t move they wouldn’t bother you. People get stung by swatting at them or threatening them in some way.
Shawn woods a mouse trapper actually has another really good trap that used water and kills them everything time they go for the meat it's a tote box with a board with chicken nailed to one side and then you put that chicken side down and fill the tote with water and soap and as they take the meat they drop in the water
Built one today, after seeing this video, thought "That's the one" once it was filled with bait, the clouds rolled in and it rained. I love a multi-task device!
People always told me when I was little to not be afraid of wasp, but one time when I was at Disney world I was just minding my own business when I watched a wasp fly onto my arm and sting me, this man is MUCH braver than I am
What a real video. There is the proof that wasps are carnivorous. They attack leaf chewing insects, cut worms, caterpillars, etc. I have seen a big yellow jacket kill and eat a killer bee. Dauber wasps prey on the dangerous spiders. Yellow jackets (wasps) have my blessing and kindness!
Have a nest of yellow jackets in my shed. Right now it's mid September. I plan on sealing the entrance where their coming in probably at night when there less aggressive. I don't have a need to retrieve anything from the shed. They haven't been a bother to me while outside. I also don't want to harm them maybe have them professional removed may be costly. Good looking trap You made, it's definitely doing it's job. 👍🏼
You'd be much better off weighing a known number, like count 50 wasps, and weigh them, rather than just the single wasp. A sample of 1 is hardly an average sample. And by weighing them all at once you minimize any issues with the scale.
They have trouble finding the small opening from the inside. The inside walls are brighter, so they think that is the way out. The trap would be more efficient if the flaps were fastened down so that the insects could crawl along the top and then onto the bottle flaps to get to the opening. It might also help of the funnel part were painted black.
its hard for them to land on the opening, or to crawl to it from the inside, but easy for them to fall in. their instinct to try to start flying to escape when they sense open space, but if they do that at the bottle top they just fall back in.
The trick is the container has clear walls, the insects will go toward the light, they tire out bouncing off the walls and fall into the liquid in the bottom and drown. The bottle top should be painted dark to insure the trapped ones never find the opening.
Great tip. Love your idea. Thank you very much and I did read some of the comments that yellow jackets are beneficial. but come fall. All bets are off. they are just complete pain in the ass and useless. They're all mad and drunk off of rotten things that are around. You can't hang a deer in the fall without them all around. You can't Slaughter animals without them being around. And I tried to pick up just my rotten apples in my yard and there was no way I could get near that part of the yard. Thank you so much for the idea on the Trap. I am going to put it to good use come Harvest Time next year. This was the worst year I have ever seen the yellow jackets in my life. One tip I can share with everyone is Dawn dishwashing liquid. If you do find a hole with the yellow jackets active. That are in the wrong place any time of year. I just walk over with Dawn and squirt directly in the hole an inch and a half around the hole in the morning. so I can trap them all coming and going. all of them get stuck to the fluid and cannot go in or out and it is totally environmentally safe. I did it to two holes in my yard and the next day a skunk or something ripped up the nest out of the ground and ate the larvae.
I battled a German yellow jacket nest in Jan. when it was cold here in N.central Fla.,I t was massive going down nearly 4 feet with five huge levels and 3 entrances underneath a large low hanging cedar tree so I could not burn it.5 full cans of bee spray on the initial attack sprayed down each hole had little effect followed by a large amount of D.E.poured into the hole and blown deep into the holes with a leaf blower.The nest released dozens of very large queens around an 1 1/2 long that were coated with D.E.After excavating the nest it overall size was about an area of a 55 gallon drum and contained many thousands of bees.It took nearly 2 weeks working on cold mornings to completely destroy the nest.
Adam Walker. Lived down in Victorville for a year, we had these huge fireants with a giant ant mound in our backyard sticking your finger in the hole of that mound would be pain unimaginable, but fireants aren't as bad wasps to a certain extent.
If you can't find the next make a feeding station with meat as you've done and then once they've told all their friends, (2-3 days) and there are a lot of wasps feeding, mix in some dog flee liquid. They will take it back to the next, feed to queen and babies, no more nest...
Marshall Jr. I'm very interested in this as well. How exactly do you make a feeding station? Do you add dish soap/water mixture? What kind of dog/cat flea stuff did you use and how often will I need to reset the traps/ stations? How does the flea stuff actually kill queen but not the bee that took it back to nest? Last summer I completely emptied over 40 cans of raid from may to October . The red wasp and yellow jacket populations out here are horrid!!! I guess nesting in pastures and wooded areas nearby. Dad said in past years they nested under his porch. I'm not going under to check. Just trying to find ways to get rid of the sorry things. I would actually like to be able to sit outside without one getting caught in my sandal strap again. Granddaughter can't go outside without fear. She is highly allergic. Any advice is appreciated. I really like the idea of the immediate trap but how fast does a feeding station work? Have you made a video?? I would love to check it out!
Me spotting a yellow jacket: "omfg where are the blankets, I need carpet, give me a thick coat, that thing is totally not going to sting me". This guy: "there's like hundreds of them. Here, let me pull the lid to show you how I've made this" From this day, I religiously believe that every thundershock is the result of this man's galactic testicles bumping into any object poor enough to get in their way.
Geeze... a huge hive somewhere close by. Believe it or not....I was supervising a small crew in the woods who were clearing small brush in front of trees that had our signs on them. I was standing in the gravel road about 20 feet away. The guy hit a small tree with his machete and a huge cloud of yellow jackets came up like a tornado .....they headed straight to me. I was swinging my hat at them and he hollered...don't move. Well...that didn't work so I took off down the road with tornado in tow. He jumped in the truck, drove up beside me and I jumped in the bed of the truck and he took off. He stopped a half mile down the road, I got out and was swatting the few still on me when suddenly the cloud descended on me again. I jumped back in the bed and he took off and stopped a quarter down the road. I jumped out and this time immediately jumped into the cab of the truck. They again descended on the truck..swarming the windows. I went back later that day and poured a gallon of gas down the hole and relished every moment of it. I was stung at least 100 times. They are some hateful little bastards. I once saw yellow jacket nests that had been rooted by armadillos (or something) ...there was a depression in the ground the size of those old satellite dishes. There must have been 10's of thousands in that nest...not one YJ was left and the nest material was freaking huge. I shudder to think what would happen if someone accidentally encountered it.
I agree the yellow jackets continue to be a huge problem in the fall when I am feeding. I will try hard to put enough traps out to catch more queens in the spring to try to reduce the numbers.
Hey man! Thanks for the video and alot of useful info again. Every once in a while i come back to watch your videos, and i have solved this wasp/hornet problem an other way, maybe a way that might be useful for you too😊. Im a beekeeper aswell, i had a hornet problem where hornets would kill my bees, first i made the gaps in my beehive boxes small enough so nothing bigger than my bees could get in, 2nd i laid one of those glue mouse traps on top of the box (this is like a square piece of carboard that has this really sticky glue on it. Then next, i caught one of the hornets, killed it and stuck it onto the glue trap, because of killing that one and putting it on the glue trap, the hornet releases pheromones calling for help from other hornets, and in an hour time i already had 6 hornets stuck in the glue. With 6 hornets stuck in the glue, they would release even more pheromones and after checking that last time that day, i left it for the night and went to check the next day and i had 47 hornets stuck in the glue trap (wooohooo!!😁), it definately works a charm. I now always put like 5 or 6 of them hornet/mouse glue traps on my boxes and i put a dead hornet on each of those and i'm catching a ton of hornets and i rarely seen any hornet in my bee boxes 🙂 since im using these traps ive relayed that info to a Japanese friend of mine who's also a beekeeper & he has made a video on UA-cam about the same trick i'm using. So if you guys wanna see exactly what i mean, search for "How to capture Japanese Giant Hornet with glue sheet trap" and you should find that video 😊😊
It's a plastic tub with a hole cut in the lid, a bottle top funnel taped in the hole, dishsoap/water mix in the bottom of the tub, and some rancid meat just above the water line. That's it mate!!
I have dwarf apple trees, And they get into my appled. We have sprayed the trees, But just before the apples are ready to pick, we see the yellpw jackets have got to them. I wonder if this will help our apples.
In addition to traps, if you have a rough idea where the nest is you can try applying beneficial nematodes to the soil as well. They are supposed to go after the larva.
Do I have a yellow jacket problem?
No
Will I still watch this?
I shall
Watching these scourges of nature being snuffed out brings out a primal joy in many of us.
I'm here cause of how much pain they caused me, and I'm mesmerized by them now
Glad I'm not the only one.
Ha
You should put the green kenobi alien profile.
I took a sting to the eyeball from one of these when I was about 6 years old. Woke up next day feeling like my eye had been replaced with a tennis ball, It was 3 or 4 weeks before I was able to open it again. Their demise pleases me.
Grunter OUCH
I kill them with my hands if need be. Just clap your hands on them. They can't sting and you can crush them in the air. My hands usually hurt because I clap so hard.
A sting to the actual eyeball? The white part of the eye? What was the pain like? I can't even imagine.
Thank God you're alright.
like he had a tennis ball in his eye socket...
I got a sting to the white of my eye too. I had a black ring around my eye halfway down my cheek for a while and couldn't open my eye for at least 4 or 5 days. It suuuuucked
I assumed you were in one of those full body bomb disposal suits but nah just chilling there in sandals
holy shit
😂
When they're feeding, they're not very aggressive.
Jim Lunn balls of steel
Jim Lunn I cant Believe that he only has the hat part on
It's ok he got a bee hat on
On sandals??? I would MAYBE think of going near this with a power armor.
nah FUCKING BURN IT WITH A FLAME THROWER
Let's be honest a true power armor would be a wet dream!!!!!!
Check : TheBoringCompany, the not a flamethrower, Flamethrower.
@@RSN_Charizard_Op >>> Wish I had bought one when they were available....
@@fallenangelwi25 yes, i say let go of using tech and energy to explore space, build power armour! ...li po batteries, with hydraulic something lol. ...
Dude is just touching the trap bare handed and with sandals...
Intense
Oh my God I kno right!? I can't stand for one of those things to even get 20 feet from me.
Joe Gravelle sucks
@Nightatscary YT are you blind, he's literally wearing sandals
I understand he's comfortable around his honey bees, but yellow jackets too? This guy's a monster
Balls of steel
Lol. Bare feet and he just lifts that Bottle out with bare hands. I feel like I've been stung a dozen times just watching this video.
I cpuld never do that with my necked foots
Definitely he got a lotta balls. I hate these bastards. They are SATAN's Predators!
put on some socks cletus
@@dryan8377 cast iron balls, but I think he realizes they're more interested in the rotten meat than him.
how is it possible he didn't get stung? sometimes i sit outside on my porch and the wasps come flying at my face meanwhile this guy is grabbing the trap with bare hands
Why do I keep clicking these videos when I'm horrified of bees and wasps and such?
I can't resist either.
Shada ,, I'm allergic to bees. I'm descencitising myself.. and becoming knowledgeable.. I'm not so afraid anymore. Although wearing headphones makes it a real interesting experience.. lol
Lol I know me to
Mental masochism
Yo Shada I think there is something crawling on your ear! :D hehehehe Be careful & stay safe- you're right to be fearful of wasps etc.
I know, I know, every animal serves a function, but I still think we can all agree that every hornet and wasp could die and we'd find a way to cope with the loss...
Untrue
lbbradley55 he didn’t say honeybees he said hornets and wasps which kill bees 🤦🏾♂️
Alex MacLean wasps are quite good for the ecosystem tho since they kill lots of insects and this keeps insect plagues down.
Alex MacLean
A wasps / hornets only job is to be an asshole
lbbradley55 can you read??? He said hornets and wasp. Where the fuck did he say anything about honeybees?😤
In cases where I found the nest, the trusty vacuum cleaner trick has always worked like a champ. Just place the hose opening near the entrance, set to "on" then plug it in. The jackets do not like the sound or vibration and will relentlessly attack the hose opening, getting sucked in. If you have a shop vac, you can also put soapy water in the canister. I've wiped out entire in-wall nests in a couple of hours this way.
We have done this, too! One in the side of the house. Worked great. For in ground nests, we usually pour diesel in and light it up
Cool!
'suck it and see' as the saying goes
I thought I had a bee hive in my wall and probably did but got in inspection scope and was told they have been taken over by yellow jackets. I like the vacuum idea. Think I will take a video first, pretty interesting.
Watched a few of these bee keeping videos now. Giant Murder Hornets, yellow jackets....I had no idea how hard it is for bee keepers to keep bees safe and not stressed. I have a new found respect for bee keepers. Keep up the good work!
If being brave means wearing flip flops to see yellow jackets then I choose to be a coward my whole life
😂😂😂😂
The thing about wasps/yellow jackets is, they react to motion. If you flail and make quick movements, sure as shit they'll sting you. If you go slow and pay attention, they wont if they aren't already agitated.
If you mind your own business and stay calm, they’re really nothing to worry about.
So does the bad meat kill them or now what
@@jakesnake165 No they simply can't get out and die from lack of life and purpose.
A fly just landed on my wrist, needless to say 62 BPM became 102.
Nigel Brookes lol
You sure got guts. No gloves?and sandals? Holy smokes I’d go in battle gear with a flamethrower and still sweat
I saw that... I was like holy chit! No way. Gimme your flame-thrower to eliminate all of these bastards yesterday!
Give me my brown pants...
@@thomasbroking7943 this guy has the right idea...he wore the brown pants😹
Tooo dead ass str8 facts no lies told
I used to have white pants now they have a brown line through the middle this is crazy crazy
Him: goes out half naked to video yellow jacket trap
Me: *at home* screaming like a mad lady watching this video
you do realize its a joke, right?
Me: cringed hard reading your 'humor'
me : dies when i see one wasp
barnyard bees man : hold my beer
Me: You're soooo cute!
why?
Great job but I think your drawing the yellow jackets closer to your hives by having the Yellow Jacket trap directly on top of your beehives. Put it 50 yards away... they'll find it.
I was thinking the same. Why would you put it on your hive?
I think that hive got taken over by the wasps
I would move it away also. Otherwise they antagonize the bees, and of course you have to deal with these vile buggers when working your bees.
Don’t yellowjackets kill honey bees?
@@djrepercussion Only if the bees decide to fight them and the yellowjackets have superior strength/numbers.
You need maybe 20 more traps, and not right at the nest boxes, to draw them away and kill larger numbers. I love what you have done and thank you for sharing it.
Meat is good but there’s nothing that beats fish. Any kind seems to work but salt water fish are enough to drive them nuts. This is a great trap. Thanks I’ll build one tomorrow. Might add some electricity just to get them back for my last sting. Man I hate yellow jackets 🐝
Yeah, I hate the suckers too!
@ Pantolon Yilani fuck off you dumbass sack of shit.
Natelostgetoverit CryBaby good gravy that’s terrible! You must live in a hive. The poor kids must have been miserable. I just got stung in the hand and I thought ah no big deal. In an hour it looked like a pumpkin with fingers. I hate those suckers. We kill them when ever we can
They really seem to love crab too I have noticed.
Natelostgetoverit CryBaby a woman I worked with was at a company picnic we were having a she picked up her 7-up off the table and there were a bunch of yellow jackets that had gone into it. She got stung in the tongue , the Emt’s said 7 Times ( don’t know how they counted that) , but her tongue swelled up and looked like a football. Never saw anything like that before or since , but it darn near suffocated her. Poor girl. You can believe that’s one mistake I never make after seeing that. Look before you drink. !!👀🐝
When I was 12 I tied my horse to an Alder tree for awhile so I could help my brother lift some supplies into his tree house. I heard the horse begin to stomp and snort and whinny and looked down to see her pulling at her bridle in the midst of a cloud of yellow jackets. There happened to be a nest of them among the roots of the tree. I ran into the angrily buzzing cloud and was able to use my pocket knife to cut the reins and free her, but my sojourn among those little bastards left me with about 100 stings on my face, down my shirt and up my pants legs. Have no pity on these vicious little shits. KILL THEM ALL.
yeah kill all of them!!!!!!!
that information is good advice for horse and other pet owners to look carefully before tying up an animal as well as being a potential scene for a Stephen King novel.
Is the horse ok?
Animal abuser.
Sheila it's remarkable people like you exist.
Thank you for saving the bees
If he didn't do something, there goes his honey business
I HATE! bees all bee's with a big passion! I want bees to be EXTINCT. We don't need honey when we have sugar. There noise they make when they fly is so unpleasant. I mean no offence to people who do like bees 🤢🤮. Bees are just not something I like ..
Emmanuel Ben if all be where gone they be no sugar !! Bees play a huge part in this planet food supplier
@@wolfemanbog4176 oh..
@@bryanderagaming1316 bees are very important!!!!!
I cannot begin to say how grateful I am that you made this video! I will be making this trap tomorrow!
You must have had a couple of nest around. I'll give you another tip - get yourself a can of cat food, and mix in some Fipronil. Fipronil is commonly sold as Frontline flea and tick treatment for dogs. Buy the one for large dogs, and mix one tube with the cat food. You want to spread it out on pieces of plywood and set it out at first light. Leave it out where the nests are - you can divide it into three clumps. By the end of the day, the poisoned meat is gone, and the workers have brought it back to the nests where they share it with the others. In two days the nests are dead. WARNING - this method is technically illegal (off-label) since Fipronil is poisonous to fish and birds, so you want to be sure to keep it away from water, and away from places where the birds might peck at it. I created a wire cage to let the yellowjackets through, but keep other things out.
You're welcome.
Not sure anything should be left out for ther local cats to consume, even if you hate the neighbors cat.
They said they built a wire cage around it to keep other animals out...
I agree...you must kill the nest or you're fighting a losing battle
It would work pretty well, as most bees are nectar and pollen eaters. Any of the predatory flying insects that are 'meat' eaters would be effected. Just make sure it stays inside a wire cage, as described, to prevent unwanted critters from getting at it, and do not leave it out overnight.
That stuff is nasty too bees. And he has hives. So watch what you do.
I had huge YJ problem last year. So I did a little research and here is what I did. I hung 3 Rescue traps in first warm days in the spring in bee yard. And I caught 32 queens in the spring. According to Internet each queen has something like 1000 workers in the fall, you do the math. Very little jackets this fall. Great success!
Alexey Dorokhov that’s like over 300!
Dozer1642 I suggest you go back to school. 😂
Alexey Dorokhov , Dozer is not technically wrong. 32x1000 is more than 300...
Chuck U. Farley thank you.
I made a trap in a plastic cup using %5 Sevin dust, mixed with some sugar,it worked.the Sevin dust is powerful by itself but the sugar draws them to the dust,the Sevin dust destroy them
That's really pulling them in! I wonder if the chickens would eat the dead yellow jackets.
628DirtRooster That becomes a very foul soup in short order, but then again chickens eat anything they can cram down their necks. They might eat them after all. Lol
I have a couple of visiting peacocks that will walk up to the YJ' trap and eat the ones flying around. However peacocks also eat gardens, grapes, green fruit etc . .
Chickens do not eat YJ, wasp or bees, they would eat their larvae though.
Well mine eat every insect they come across. I bet mine would eat them. We feed them leftovers, they literally eat anything basically.
hardcore hunter No, they would not.
My man isn't wearing a fkn bee suit straight bare hand touching this gateway to hell!!??
To date, the size of his balls has yet to be measured.
At Last, I got rid of a large colony of yellow jacket wasps nesting between the roof and the ceiling 2 days ago. The wasps found a way in through 3 small gaps in the soffit and the nest was deep inside the roof and not accessible.
I sealed the gaps with silicone sealant but they seem to find another way in.
1. First method , before I looked up UA-cam for hints, I tried to zap them with an electric device shaped like a table tennis bat. Managed to kill about 120 wasps but the wasp population was large and they still kept coming.
2. A few days later tried the method described on one of these channels using a cooked piece of chicken and a rectangular container partly filled with soapy water. Managed to kill about 100 wasps over 3-4 days. The wasps were still breeding fast and they kept coming.
3. This time I mixed 1 teaspoon of honey and 1 teaspoon of Borax powder (more if needed). I dabbed the gooey mixture at the wasp’s entrance in the soffit at 3 places. You can see the wasps quickly start feeding on the mixture. You do it say twice a day (if you have time)as the honey/Boraz mixture gets consumed quickly. It does not kill the wasp immediately which is great because the wasp then goes in to feed the larvae. After about 5 days of doing this the wasp population gets reduced drastically. After about 8 days, the whole wasp population is gone.
4. No honey bees were affected because they will not go near the wasp entrance in the soffit. You can wipe off any excess honey/Borax on the soffit.
5. Disadvantage of 3/. is that you have to do this regularly over a few days.
6. Make sure you wear a hoodie, long pants, socks and shoes, gloves, face mask and face shield. You need a long enough ladder to get to the soffit.
7. Feels good and at peace when you finally do something that worked.
Neat way to kill the yellow jackets, thanks for the tip. However, no need to wear anything when you do this at sunset or later. Wasps become inactive during the night.
Hi James . I am having wasps coming and trying to make hives . How do I get rid of them ? Exterminator are so expensive. Thank you for your help
Borax and sugar water does the same with ants. They drink it up and take it back to the nest…kills them all in a few days
I gave up on the sprays. The spray/foam never go deep into the nest. Found that the aerosol flea canisters work great. The aerosol penetrates all the crevices and goes way deep.
Man, nice work! Clever trap. Thank you for working to help save our most essential honey bees!
do you realize that honeybees don't pollinate everything, their numbers cause decline of other pollinators, killing yellow jackets don't save honeybees..
To find the yellow jacket nests setup 3 feeders approx 100 to 200 feet apart and use triangulation to determine the exact location of the nests by watching the wasps return home with their booty from each feeder. I use this technique to locate nests. Works every time!
Barn yard bees 🐝: eh I’ll just touch the trap with A lot of yellowjackets
Me: *Sees a yellow jacket* OH HELL NAH
If you don't smell like rotten meat or sugar water, they are not interested in you - as long as you don't swat at them or attack them some other way.
@@buggsy5 Then explain them tryna come from across the yard to stab my face
@@LupeSunglass I have never had that happen, unless I am in their flight path to the trap. Even then, they just usually bounce off instead of trying to sting.
Experiment by painting the funnel black, so the yellow jackets will see light straight down and go through the opening, rather than trying to get through the funnel wall.
You could also use a sport drink bottle for your funnel - which would provide a larger opening into the trap. Even with such a large opening, I have rarely seen yellow jackets crawl up and out.
You need the David Burns feeding system for your hives...
We have a nest in the stables. I managed to get rid of a few hundred thanks to you! Thanks. I’m sure the horses say thanks too.
dude is doing this with out gloves.. any protection? Yeah.. f that. Kudos for being able to though
If I did that I’d be dead or permanently in the hospital.
Braver, or dumber, than I. OUCH, no effing way.
I've got a friend crazy like that. He had a wasp nest take hold in the side of his house, and he'd go up there and start beating on the side of the house and they'd come out and......not fucking sting him somehow!!! I don't know how he does it!! I came over to pick him up one day. He was sitting on the tailgate of a truck, very close to the house, slumped over from the heat of a 90+-degree day, and wasps were everywhere right above him!! When he would raise up and sit up straight, they were all flying around his head and he just sat there!!! He didn't swing like i'd be doing, so he never got stung, but just the sight is something I'll never forget!! He saw me pull up, got off the truck, and walked on over like nothing!
Stonemansteve II. What's his secret?
KIMBERLY PORTERMaybe he's born with it, maybe it's Maybeline?
Anyone else really itchy and swatting at imaginary bugs?
I accidentally put it on full screen on my phone omg I wanted to cry lol 😂
Tony Bondi a fly flew past my head and i flipped out while i was watching this
Tony Bondi didn’t help my anxiety
Lol me
Tony Bondi go to a doctor lol
I recently moved to an area with lots of yellow jackets and wasps, so I've been reading up on them. When devising traps for these pests, it's good to plan for both types: the ones drawn to sweet aromas (soda pop, fruit juice, ripe fruit) and the ones drawn to animal protein (e.g. BBQ ribs, deviled eggs, and your grandson's baloney sandwich!).
It's the same species I think.
They gather animal protein for their larvae, while they themselves consume sweets.
Bare handed??? That’s what you call “Built in the USA”
You've clearly never heard of the term "Mother Russia"😂 .... Btw this guy has balls of Steel
I guess bees really don't mind you, unless you are a threat to their nest. Here they are just interested in the food only.
Kinda like skinny dipping in a pool of Piranhas
Thanks for the video. Great trap.
When I put out swarm lures I've noticed that if there's a smell of "death" near a lure the bees might scout the lure, but I haven't had a lure this year that was adopted by a swarm when the lure had the smell of death within a hundred feet.. I had a couple of buzzards raise a chick near a lure location. They brought the chick road kill etc and the bees stayed away from those lures.
Went through at least 10 disposable traps this last year. This is far better. Glad you showed how to build it. New project for the summer!
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We do a similar thing at the national park usually with liter soap bottles but we just cut a couple near the top portion of the bottle and glue a sponge on the twist top and add pheromone to it. Mostly we do that to monitor numbers. For the nests though might I suggest a strategy we do at the park attract some to an area with a can of tuna or something like that then take a small piece of jerky and tie thread around it and at the end put something light but reflective or white, generally something that really stands out. After the jacket picks up that piece, well better have your running shoes on. We have to do this because we have restrictions that don't really allow us to use poison bait, so I'm not certain what you're allowed to do but the upside is you don't get fat doing this.
@ 5:15 Just casually gesturing in the middle of swarm of yellow jackets.
They're focused on the meat, they wont sting him unless he really ficks with them
@@BaneRain no way would I even be that close to that trap let alone lift up the homemade funnel
This dude has serious courage, I saw one in our porch and I freaked out
Thank you ! We will use your idea next year. We aren’t honey bee hive workers yet but the yellow jackets are awful here too.
Yes, I saw a video where someone filled it with way more water and Dawn dish soap. They die way faster. Just curious as to why you didn’t put it further away from the honey hives? Enough meat in a few traps on the ground would attract them away from the hives and give less stress to your honey bees.
He has sugar water on top of the hives so they’re drawn to that too, he’s trying to overwhelm the sugar smell with the meat smell
That person was :
Mousetrap Monday.
@@hag8752 so then take the sugar water away. Let the bees polinate and forage like they should. Just greedy for more bee spit with sugar. Nasty
@@iwontreplybacklol7481 i would expect someone so salty to complain about sugar.
Thanks for the tip David. I built one of these and put it on the tongue of my enclosed trailer about 20 ft from my hives and it drew every yellow jacket away from the hives. My trap is about 3" deep in yellow jackets and many more on the inside walls. Great cheap fix to a problem. Thanks
that's what I was thinking as I was watching this; i.e., it doesn't seem like a good idea to have the y.j's so close to the hive
I made two of these traps. One I posted about 15-20 feet of the hives, and a second one about 50+ feet away. The second trap caught very few......VERY few. But the closer one caught hundreds.
Jeans Roses The YJs were already visiting the hives, because they wanted to steal from the bees. The trap is more enticing, so the bees are left alone.
@@dabprod4962 with that large trap..'ll fill it with syrup,a sweet soda,mix it with some liquid insecticide such as the liquid sevin..they will feed from the bait,it will dry them out, the yellow jackets will die off.
You need to build about 20 of those traps to kill those vile things
got nuts being that close to swarming yellow jackets. the ones in Oklahoma seemed to have a violent temper. we kept our distance from em lol
Richard Peterson it'd be worse approaching their nest. They get defensive about their home, whereas these guys are just busy following their noses for that trap.
Here in CT our yellow jackets actually hunt you down after death. I've been stung 5 times all by dead yellow jackets. Even death does not stop their wake of devistation and sadism. We had a nest and they killed a stray cat that came near. Just absolutely wrecked the poor Kitty in seconds
I was out playing paintballs 2 summers ago, I was moving on the flank of a group of unaware players, I slide behind a steel drum which was placed inside of a dump truck tire about 40 feet behind the groups little bunker they where chilling in, and I start spraying, then the return spray comes in as I take cover, it rattles up the barrel which happened to contain a big hornet nest.
I've got a friend crazy like that. He had a wasp nest take hold in the side of his house, and he'd go up there and start beating on the side of the house and they'd come out and......not fucking sting him somehow!!! I don't know how he does it!! I came over to pick him up one day. He was sitting on the tailgate of a truck, very close to the house, slumped over from the heat of a 90+-degree day, and wasps were everywhere right above him!! When he would raise up and sit up straight, they were all flying around his head and he just sat there!!! He didn't swing like i'd be doing, so he never got stung, but just the sight is something I'll never forget!! He saw me pull up, got off the truck, and walked on over like nothing!
Yea I agree they’ll start doing airstrikes on you and attack your pets sting the house get in your house and follow you around the yard shit there enough to give you nightmares
That was an awful year. Putting traps out this week. Great advice. Thank you
I like your channel because you are man who is saving world. No Bees no food.
That's awesome...definitely implementing some of these around the area.
I got stung at a young age I was afraid of bees and there cousins threw my teens. I am 31 now but it took me along time not to be scared anymore! I give you beekeepers respect for your passion to manage bees!
I am really not afraid anymore, but I am still cautious.
Mainly because killer bees are moving north.
Best way I found to get rid of yellow jackets.
If you know where the nest is. Get a wet/dry shopvac , put a couple inches of water in it with dish detergent. Set the nozzle of the vacuum hose right next to the entrance. Leave it for a few hours and you will have a shopvac full of hornet soup
That smells like hell lol
I think I'll try that.
4:22 that orange wasp seems to be native to my area, i see them often. They are SCARY, has anyone ever be stung by one? If so was it worse than a regular yellow wasp?
That is a Red Paper Wasp, typically found in areas in the South, they are less aggressive than the hornets you see here, but the sting is supposed be more painful, the wasps can be identified by the long and skinny abdomen, while hornets can be identified for the short and more stocky abdomen.
Paper wasps are usually less aggressive than hornets, but because paper wasps build their nests near our homes or on our home, that leads to frequent conflict. Although many people dislike and hate wasps for good reasons, they can be beneficial for controlling other pests, so depending on the circumstances, keeping them around might not be a bad idea as long as they don't grow our of control. But paper wasps will never reach the massive numbers of say, bees or in this case hornets. Here in California, we have the European Paper Wasps, that are commonly referred to as 'Yellow Jacket' because of their colors resembling the real Yellowjackets like you see here. They fly around in our garden getting rid of the pests, and we have never had a problem, they did build a nest too close for comfort so unfortunately we to deal with that, but they had a decent size nest on our gate, and perhaps they knew me because I always watched them closely, one day we were lifting something, and we literally bumped the gate with them on their nest, less than 6 inches away, and they didn't even move, they just watched and there was at least 9 on there, so I have good experiences with them, have held some of them as well as bees, never had any issues.
Charles V Alkan Wow that is INCREDIBLE!!! Thanks for sharing your experience and some facts, I honestly didnt think of them getting rid of pests
That scenery and landscape looks priceless
Thank you so much, folks don't really understand how essential honey bees are to our survival.
My first encounter with yellow jackets was when I was 10 or 11. Went with my father to work (he works in the oil field) and we had to unlock this gate that was chained to a post. I unlocked it and as I was unwrapping the chain like 10-20 yellow jackets flew out of the post and chased me. I ran fast and didn’t get stung but they will pelt you. You’ll hear the terrifying “brpbrpbrp” as they whiz past your ear, truly terrifying.
Anyone that kills wasps is a friend of mine
deanmoncaster I agree
Thank you so much ! I have a huge underground yellow jacket nest that I have poured 64 ounces of straight dish soap into (didn't work), covered the holes with food grade DE (didn't work), & was going to try pouring boiling water in the hive holes at dusk today. But I am definitely going to make some of your traps! I also tried a small storebought trap & it worked but the colony is just too huge.
Japanese hornets were recently found in my state (Washington), the thought of them becoming as common as yellow jackets terrifies me.
It doesn’t seem like that’s going to happen. Experts are already strategizing plans to eradicate queens when worker hornets begin scouting for hives to raid early fall. Also, those hornets are used to warm, wet summers in japan. Washington may be wet, but you guys don’t have really warm summers.
I sincerely hope Washington state is aiming for overkill on that situation.
JEEZ!!!! Holy cow. well done. Learned how to control a pest today.
These are the nicest Yellow Jackets I've ever seen, one shows up at our table it's total bedlam trying to avoid being stung
Cal 99ers they don’t come to your table to sting you, they’re looking for food and if you just didn’t move they wouldn’t bother you. People get stung by swatting at them or threatening them in some way.
Shawn woods a mouse trapper actually has another really good trap that used water and kills them everything time they go for the meat it's a tote box with a board with chicken nailed to one side and then you put that chicken side down and fill the tote with water and soap and as they take the meat they drop in the water
Built one today, after seeing this video, thought "That's the one" once it was filled with bait, the clouds rolled in and it rained. I love a multi-task device!
What is the yellow jackets natural predator ?
WOW! You've got a hell of a nest somewhere.
Great idea! Wouldn't it be better to locate the trap away from your hives so that you don't attract hordes of yellowjackets coming to your hives?
my thoughts too.
Same thoughts here
Eddie Chapman but all those yellow jackets are near the hives
Believe they are already attracted to the feeders. Hence why there are so many.
Crazy!!!!
People always told me when I was little to not be afraid of wasp, but one time when I was at Disney world I was just minding my own business when I watched a wasp fly onto my arm and sting me, this man is MUCH braver than I am
great and scalable design ... could place down wind in one's yard ... could make rain shed to block rain water pouring in .. thanks fer the good idea
That's an excellent trap... I'll be going with that idea.. Cheers.. Shout out from Dublin Ireland 🇮🇪
What a real video. There is the proof that wasps are carnivorous. They attack leaf chewing insects, cut worms, caterpillars, etc. I have seen a big yellow jacket kill and eat a killer bee. Dauber wasps prey on the dangerous spiders. Yellow jackets (wasps) have my blessing and kindness!
This man has titanium balls. Standing 1ft away wearing shorts, flip-flops, and bare-hands like that.
I'm listening to this with a stereo headset, and I keep cringing every time a bee or yellow jacket flies by. 😂
Yes sir, these things work fantastic. Thanks for sharing.
Have a nest of yellow jackets in my shed. Right now it's mid September. I plan on sealing the entrance where their coming in probably at night when there less aggressive. I don't have a need to retrieve anything from the shed. They haven't been a bother to me while outside. I also don't want to harm them maybe have them professional removed may be costly. Good looking trap You made, it's definitely doing it's job. 👍🏼
Weigh one wasp, take the dead wasps, weigh them, then divide the overall weight by the one wasp, it'd be cool to get a rough estimate
You'd be much better off weighing a known number, like count 50 wasps, and weigh them, rather than just the single wasp. A sample of 1 is hardly an average sample. And by weighing them all at once you minimize any issues with the scale.
@@billybobjoe198 that's a good point
How can they not get out through the 1 liter bottle opening, but go into a hive to raid it and get out?
They have trouble finding the small opening from the inside. The inside walls are brighter, so they think that is the way out.
The trap would be more efficient if the flaps were fastened down so that the insects could crawl along the top and then onto the bottle flaps to get to the opening.
It might also help of the funnel part were painted black.
its hard for them to land on the opening, or to crawl to it from the inside, but easy for them to fall in. their instinct to try to start flying to escape when they sense open space, but if they do that at the bottle top they just fall back in.
The trick is the container has clear walls, the insects will go toward the light, they tire out bouncing off the walls and fall into the liquid in the bottom and drown. The bottle top should be painted dark to insure the trapped ones never find the opening.
Great tip. Love your idea. Thank you very much and I did read some of the comments that yellow jackets are beneficial. but come fall. All bets are off. they are just complete pain in the ass and useless. They're all mad and drunk off of rotten things that are around. You can't hang a deer in the fall without them all around. You can't Slaughter animals without them being around. And I tried to pick up just my rotten apples in my yard and there was no way I could get near that part of the yard. Thank you so much for the idea on the Trap. I am going to put it to good use come Harvest Time next year. This was the worst year I have ever seen the yellow jackets in my life. One tip I can share with everyone is Dawn dishwashing liquid. If you do find a hole with the yellow jackets active. That are in the wrong place any time of year. I just walk over with Dawn and squirt directly in the hole an inch and a half around the hole in the morning. so I can trap them all coming and going. all of them get stuck to the fluid and cannot go in or out and it is totally environmentally safe. I did it to two holes in my yard and the next day a skunk or something ripped up the nest out of the ground and ate the larvae.
i am going to try this in the early spring to catch the queens, then they cannot build nests. in the fall you are catching all the workers.
Congratulations ! Your trap is magnificent.
Just absolutely craziness..when u lifted the lid on the trap made me shutter..tysm for sharing
You need lile 50 of those traps, all around the hives, out in the fields. Go thermonuclear on those yellow jackets
You should try one of those traps that has poisoned bait, they'll bring it back to the nest and the queen dies.
You’re one brave guy to be lifting that thing up haha
I battled a German yellow jacket nest in Jan. when it was cold here in N.central Fla.,I t was massive going down nearly 4 feet with five huge levels and 3 entrances underneath a large low hanging cedar tree so I could not burn it.5 full cans of bee spray on the initial attack sprayed down each hole had little effect followed by a large amount of D.E.poured into the hole and blown deep into the holes with a leaf blower.The nest released dozens of very large queens around an 1 1/2 long that were coated with D.E.After excavating the nest it overall size was about an area of a 55 gallon drum and contained many thousands of bees.It took nearly 2 weeks working on cold mornings to completely destroy the nest.
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4:00 what are the long thing things? different wasp species? queen?
Red wasp, different species
WTF IS THAT RED GIANT KILLER THING!!!!!! That is freaking HUGE! On the left side of the container by the edge o.O
Shawn Strickland. Looks like a mahogany wasp.
We call them red wasps in LA they're total bastards.
Adam Walker. Lived down in Victorville for a year, we had these huge fireants with a giant ant mound in our backyard sticking your finger in the hole of that mound would be pain unimaginable, but fireants aren't as bad wasps to a certain extent.
Thanks guys, here in Canada we have no wasps even close to that size. Freaking crazy man.
Shawn Strickland. Yeah mahogany wasps are everywhere in places like kentucky and louisiana and some in california too. Thankfully you don't have them.
If you can't find the next make a feeding station with meat as you've done and then once they've told all their friends, (2-3 days) and there are a lot of wasps feeding, mix in some dog flee liquid. They will take it back to the next, feed to queen and babies, no more nest...
This sounds awesome if it works! It'd be much more efficient to kill the whole nest!
- Edge - this works, I've done it with dog and cat flea medication.
Marshall Jr. I'm very interested in this as well. How exactly do you make a feeding station? Do you add dish soap/water mixture? What kind of dog/cat flea stuff did you use and how often will I need to reset the traps/ stations? How does the flea stuff actually kill queen but not the bee that took it back to nest? Last summer I completely emptied over 40 cans of raid from may to October . The red wasp and yellow jacket populations out here are horrid!!! I guess nesting in pastures and wooded areas nearby. Dad said in past years they nested under his porch. I'm not going under to check. Just trying to find ways to get rid of the sorry things. I would actually like to be able to sit outside without one getting caught in my sandal strap again. Granddaughter can't go outside without fear. She is highly allergic. Any advice is appreciated. I really like the idea of the immediate trap but how fast does a feeding station work? Have you made a video?? I would love to check it out!
Can't do that with the bees around. If one gets in, then out, it can collapse a hive. It works if you don't have a bee yard.
you need a flea mixture with the chemical 'fipronil'
very common
Me spotting a yellow jacket: "omfg where are the blankets, I need carpet, give me a thick coat, that thing is totally not going to sting me".
This guy: "there's like hundreds of them. Here, let me pull the lid to show you how I've made this"
From this day, I religiously believe that every thundershock is the result of this man's galactic testicles bumping into any object poor enough to get in their way.
Geeze... a huge hive somewhere close by. Believe it or not....I was supervising a small crew in the woods who were clearing small brush in front of trees that had our signs on them. I was standing in the gravel road about 20 feet away. The guy hit a small tree with his machete and a huge cloud of yellow jackets came up like a tornado .....they headed straight to me. I was swinging my hat at them and he hollered...don't move. Well...that didn't work so I took off down the road with tornado in tow. He jumped in the truck, drove up beside me and I jumped in the bed of the truck and he took off. He stopped a half mile down the road, I got out and was swatting the few still on me when suddenly the cloud descended on me again. I jumped back in the bed and he took off and stopped a quarter down the road. I jumped out and this time immediately jumped into the cab of the truck. They again descended on the truck..swarming the windows. I went back later that day and poured a gallon of gas down the hole and relished every moment of it. I was stung at least 100 times. They are some hateful little bastards. I once saw yellow jacket nests that had been rooted by armadillos (or something) ...there was a depression in the ground the size of those old satellite dishes. There must have been 10's of thousands in that nest...not one YJ was left and the nest material was freaking huge. I shudder to think what would happen if someone accidentally encountered it.
Oh. My. God. I had chills through my whole body for the entire video.
How do you dispose of them then?
Sean Moran 1. Fish bait 2. Garden fertiliser 🌿
Ronnal Scammahorn Garden fertilizer kills them?
Sean Moran No, they are USED as garden fertilizer lol
Burn the whole backyard down ? 🤷🏻♀️ Lol kidding
Wait til the sun goes down (all the yellow jackets still alive will be gone by this time) and dispose of the dead yellow jackets and reset the trap
1:03 is that orange thing on the left of the box the queen?
Pretty sure thats a wasp
I saw several of those, I'm pretty sure that they are hornets(slightly larger, even more pissy)
Argoc They are Mahogany Wasps. A larger species.
It would seem more prudent to place your hornet trap away from your bees. In my humble opinion that is.
Can you use maybe 5 bottle tops in the same container lid and catch them 5 times quicker?
I agree the yellow jackets continue to be a huge problem in the fall when I am feeding. I will try hard to put enough traps out to catch more queens in the spring to try to reduce the numbers.
Hey man! Thanks for the video and alot of useful info again. Every once in a while i come back to watch your videos, and i have solved this wasp/hornet problem an other way, maybe a way that might be useful for you too😊. Im a beekeeper aswell, i had a hornet problem where hornets would kill my bees, first i made the gaps in my beehive boxes small enough so nothing bigger than my bees could get in, 2nd i laid one of those glue mouse traps on top of the box (this is like a square piece of carboard that has this really sticky glue on it. Then next, i caught one of the hornets, killed it and stuck it onto the glue trap, because of killing that one and putting it on the glue trap, the hornet releases pheromones calling for help from other hornets, and in an hour time i already had 6 hornets stuck in the glue. With 6 hornets stuck in the glue, they would release even more pheromones and after checking that last time that day, i left it for the night and went to check the next day and i had 47 hornets stuck in the glue trap (wooohooo!!😁), it definately works a charm. I now always put like 5 or 6 of them hornet/mouse glue traps on my boxes and i put a dead hornet on each of those and i'm catching a ton of hornets and i rarely seen any hornet in my bee boxes 🙂 since im using these traps ive relayed that info to a Japanese friend of mine who's also a beekeeper & he has made a video on UA-cam about the same trick i'm using. So if you guys wanna see exactly what i mean, search for "How to capture Japanese Giant Hornet with glue sheet trap" and you should find that video 😊😊
How the heck won't you get stung! They sting me from a mile away just by looking at them.
they are the endermen in this world😁
Canned cat food works good as well.
6771Randy yea captains choice drives them crazy. And it stinks like something long dead.
not made of honey lol
Trap looks great and works great
Go honeybees! We're rooting for ya!
Bare hands to handle a trap with hundreds of yellow jackets and wasps around??? This guy must be weighed down by the size of his massive balls.
You should put more entrances you got room for 4 of those coke bottles kill’em faster
Ok so how come I cannot find your video showing how to MAKE this trap?
It's a plastic tub with a hole cut in the lid, a bottle top funnel taped in the hole, dishsoap/water mix in the bottom of the tub, and some rancid meat just above the water line. That's it mate!!
if you watch the whole video he explains how it's made somewhere towards the end.
I have dwarf apple trees, And they get into my appled. We have sprayed the trees, But just before the apples are ready to pick, we see the yellpw jackets have got to them. I wonder if this will help our apples.
In addition to traps, if you have a rough idea where the nest is you can try applying beneficial nematodes to the soil as well. They are supposed to go after the larva.