Grandpa Kipp's Sure-Fire Yellow Jacket Trap!

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[aMorePerfectUnion]

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

You will need the following components:

Plastic dish pan or wash basin. A tablespoon of liquid dish soap, preferably non-scented. 3 sticks about 13 inches long. 2 or 3 tie wires. A 3 or 4 inch piece of wire. 12 inches of string. A piece of raw fish.

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

[MeganC]

We’ve used them to gas one of our barns for wasps and we just lit off the whole pack of six. For a small shed maybe just one would do it.

[Wildcat Stevens]

Here’s what one guy did when the exterminator wanted too much $$$. Warning- NSFW language...an F-bomb.

Oh dear Lord, bees!
http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=135103771

[Mr. Jeeves]

I've used the commercial versions of that - the problem is, although they drown the yellow jackets effectively they also seem to attract every single yellow jacket within half a mile. So rather than one or two in your yard all of a sudden you have a couple hundred buzzing around, making their way toward the trap. And in Northern California, there always seemed to be a limitless supply...

[sockmonkey]

OK, this is weird but they don't bother me either. No kidding.

Yeah, that's weird. Infrequently, they land on my head, and walk around in my hair..I've run my fingers through my hair when after about thrty seconds, and they fly away, but I've never been stung.

I think the last one I shooshed out of the kitchen two days ago, probably road in on my head.. (BTW, I'm in Texas, but I don't have "Big Hair"..I think that is a Dallas thing.)

[Bigg Red]

Excellent. Thanks.

[Fightin Whitey]

Pyramid shapes will sharpen razor blades, repel biting and stinging insects (and poisonous snakes), and attract unicorns.

Be derned.

Always wondered why my really good bourbon decanter worked that way too!

[Bigg Red]

They are nasty little punks. The husband and I were sitting outside once in the fall, and one landed on his arm and stung him immediately. He had not made any sort of movement after the landing, either.

One went down my shirt and stung me in the chest while I was in my laundry room. Hurt for about 2 weeks.

[Organic Panic]

There’s a trap like this for mice too. Rather than a piece of fish you have a tin can suspended over the water. Spear peanut butter over the can, mouse thinks it’s an easy meal, jumps on to the can, can flips over, mouse falls in water and drowns.

[Secret Agent Man]

i say we nuke it from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure.

maybe a really strong pressure washer or two, or three.

[going hot]

If you are going to stick them under the shed, place them in a 3-4 foot long pipe with the end outside capped, so they can still belch out the smoke but contain the sparklers in the pipe, or your shed might burn down.

[Does so]

No mention of "White-Faced Hornets"?

Said to be the worst sting in North America. :-(

[trisham]

Bald Faced hornets. I was on antibiotics for a month after being stung.

[Mastador1]

or your shed might burn down.

Roger that, I'm not ready to get that drastic yet.

[Skooz]

bump

[Randy Larsen]

Chicken and/or raw bacon work well too.

[Randy Larsen]

They are known to like breast meat.

They will bite AND sting at the same time.

[Randy Larsen]

Find the nest if you can and early in the morning before the air warms, sprinkle Sevin Dust down the entrance hole. Gone in 24 hours.

[Randy Larsen]

Sevin Dust in the entrance hole to the nest will kill them overnight!

[jy8z]

Rabid africanized bees that have made a hive under my shed. County won’t touch them and everyone else wants $$$$$ to exterminate.

I, too had a problem until I sprayed them with Liquid Sevin. No more bees.