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Late summer and early fall picnics can be marred by the presence of stinging insects, especially yellow jackets that are attracted to sweet foods sitting on the table. but, the problem can be resolved with the use of low priced store bought or else free homemade yellow jacket traps. If you wish to buy a trap, an online consumer website http://www.galttech.com/research/household-DIY-tools/yellow-jacket-traps.php recommends RESCUE Reusable Yellow Jacket Trap. Rescue traps are low priced, ($10.00), and reusable. If you run out of bait you can replace it with something sweet like sugar water or mashed fruit or soft drink. A second choice is Raid Disposable Yellow Jacket Trap (81605) - 4 Pack. These traps cost around $35.00. However, the advantage is that they are disposable, and avoid the need to clean and reuse. A third recommendation is Glass Yellow Jacket & Wasp Trap: by Greenfleet . These traps go for around $20.00 they are reusable, decorative and attract wasps as well as yellow jackets. If you would rather, you can {create|build a very effective yellow jacket trap, in a short amount of time at no cost at all. The only equipment you will need are an empty 2 liter soda, some tape or staples, some string and a kitchen knife or hole puncher. Just follow the step by step instructions. 1. Take an empty 2 liter plastic bottle; a mineral water bottle will do just fine. 2. Cut the topoff, just where the diameter has become as wide as the body. 3. You should now have two plastic pieces, an upper funnel shaped piece and a lower wide jar shaped piece with 4. Fill the empty bottle partially full of bait. . What can you use for yellow jacket bait? a. In the spring and early summer, when the yellow jackets are breeding, they prefer protein, so the best bait is meat. You can use either hamburger or lumcheon meat, for example. b. In the late summer or early fall, yellow jackets are more attracted to sweets. So you should use sweet bait. Possible choices include: honey, cut fruit, jam, root beer, mashed grapes, sugar and water. Additional choices include pieces crushed grapes or banana. Other bait choices include a 1/2 cup of sugar and 1/2 cup of water mixture, 1 cup of apple cider vinegar, I banana peel, then half fill the bottle. Lemonade or even Pepsi/soda work. You can, in fact, use anything that yellow jackets have been attracted to at one of your outdoor picnics. c. To add to the killing power of the trap, squirt in a couple of tablespoons of dish washing liquid d. A little bit of yellow food coloring can also be added as the color yellow attracts them. 5. Now you need to assemble the trap. Invert the top plastic piece, so it looks like a funnel and gently place it down into the lower base piece. Don't forget to remove the plastic top. 6. It should hold in place, depending on the bottle shape 6. Now fix the two pieces together in place with some staples or tape. Keep in mind, that if you wish to reuse your trap, you will have to open the two pieces, periodically to clean the insides. 7. Make two holes in the plastic, on opposite sides, at the top, where the pieces are flush together. Put a string through the holes and use it to hang the bottle. 8. Use a slippery substance such as hot soapy water, dishwashing soap or Vaseline and spread it along the exposed surface of the funnel. This will cause the wasps to lose their footing and fall into the trap. Cooking oil may also be used. 9. Place the traps at a distance of around 20 feet from your eating area. 10. Works best at a height of four feet 11. The traps are most effective at a temperature around 85 degrees Farenheit. 12. The yellow jackets will fly in, attracted to the sweet. When they try and leave, insect logic dictates they should look for the highest point to exit. They will fly around, but miss the inverted opening. When they get tired they fall into the soapy liquid. The viscous fluid, then sticks to the yellow jacket body making it impossible for them to breath. 13. Once the trap is full, either replace it or empty it out and reuse it. The trap requires replacement once the pile of dead insects blocks access to the bait. Before emptying and reusing a trap, make sure the insects are dead.You can kill them by filling the bottle full of water, or covering it with plastic and placing it in the freezer until they freeze to death. 14. Replenish the bait every few days. 15. DON'T let live yellow jackets escape as they can bring an angry swarm of wasps. DON'T crush yellow jacket bodies as that emits a smell, which might attract other yellow jackets. You can also free the yellow jackets in the wild, however they may return 16. Bury dead yellow jackets or flush them down the toilet as the dead yellow jackets emit a warning odor to living wasps. Good luck and enjoy your outdoor picnics in safety.
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