Yellow Jacket Abatement Season
Liz Albrook
This is the time of year for most of us to start our program to keep
jellow jackets under control. If you live in an area with yellow
jacket problems and the days are warming up it's time to hang up a
trap (or more than one, depending on how large your yard is) with a
pheromone attractant in it to trap and dispose of those pesky jackets.
You'll trap much fewer jackets in the spring than in the fall but the
ones you trap in the spring won't breed up those big nests in the
fall, either. Spring traps keep my lawn usuable in the fall, and I
recommend them to people who have fall jacket problems.
If the traps are baited only with the pheromone and no sugar
containing substances then you don't need to worry about accidentally
trapping bees or other beneficials. (Yes, I know that yellow jackets
are beneficial but they are so aggressive that they are "bad guys" in
my yard.)
--
Liz Albrook
USDA Zone 7, Sunset Zone 3
North Central Idaho
Joe Gillis
I've never heard of anything to trap yellow jackets and would be very
interested in finding out how to go about it. My son is allergic to pollen
and weeds and suffered a serious attack a number of years ago by being
stung by a wasp.(it must have had pollen on it's stinger). Although he has
been very lucky over the past few years I would love to find a way to
decrease the amount we get here. Could you please let me know what to do. I
check this group every morning so you can respond to either the ng. or
email me. Thanks Catherine
Liz Albrook <ealb...@lewiston.com> wrote in article
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Mike Wasmund
In article <5hg6jr$cs9$1...@thor.atcon.com>, jogi...@atcon.com says...
>
>I've never heard of anything to trap yellow jackets and would be very
>interested in finding out how to go about it. My son is allergic to pollen
>and weeds and suffered a serious attack a number of years ago by being
>stung by a wasp.(it must have had pollen on it's stinger). Although he has
>been very lucky over the past few years I would love to find a way to
>decrease the amount we get here. Could you please let me know what to do. I
>check this group every morning so you can respond to either the ng. or
>email me. Thanks Catherine
>
>Liz Albrook <ealb...@lewiston.com> wrote in article
><MPG.da10bb39...@news.zippo.com>...
>> This is the time of year for most of us to start our program to keep
>> jellow jackets under control.
>>
>> --
>> Liz Albrook
>> USDA Zone 7, Sunset Zone 3
>> North Central Idaho
>>
For Catherine and anyone else intrested,
Sterling International, Inc.
P.O. Box 22o
Liberty Lake, WA 99019
1-800-666-6766 (Customer Service Number)
Maker of RESCUE! Yellowjacket Control Trap. Works well!! During height of
yellow jacket season, I have to empty mine daily (half_full or more).
Standard Disclaimer: I am in no way affiliated with the above listed
corporation. I just *like* their product a lot!
Mike
Whidbey Island WA (USDA Zone 8)
To respond by e-mail, please remove the nsp from the front of my name.
d...@bio-organics.com
Mike Wasmund wrote:
>
> For Catherine and anyone else intrested,
>
> Sterling International, Inc.
> P.O. Box 22o
> Liberty Lake, WA 99019
>
> 1-800-666-6766 (Customer Service Number)
>
> Maker of RESCUE! Yellowjacket Control Trap. Works well!! During height of
> yellow jacket season, I have to empty mine daily (half_full or more).
I always have to add my favorite yellow-jabber control method. Just
hang a fish over a bucket of water with a squirt of detergent in it.
The yellow jackets eat so much they can barely fly, drop into the water,
and bye-bye!
For best effect, have the fish fairly close to the surface of the
water. I've nailed over 100 in a day with this - made a big difference
all summer, and very organic, too!
My only problem was cats and racoons swiping the fish at night!
Don Chapman
Bio/Organics, Inc.
Camarillo CA
<http://www.bio-organics.com>
Scott D. Jung
My problem is that they chase away all my hummers in the fall. They
are attracted to the feeders and NOT the traps. Any clues as to what
to do?
Scott
On Mon, 24 Mar 1997 22:08:25 -0800, ealb...@lewiston.com (Liz
Albrook) wrote:
>This is the time of year for most of us to start our program to keep
>jellow jackets under control. If you live in an area with yellow
>jacket problems and the days are warming up it's time to hang up a
>trap (or more than one, depending on how large your yard is) with a
>pheromone attractant in it to trap and dispose of those pesky jackets.
>
>You'll trap much fewer jackets in the spring than in the fall but the
>ones you trap in the spring won't breed up those big nests in the
>fall, either. Spring traps keep my lawn usuable in the fall, and I
>recommend them to people who have fall jacket problems.
>
>If the traps are baited only with the pheromone and no sugar
>containing substances then you don't need to worry about accidentally
>trapping bees or other beneficials. (Yes, I know that yellow jackets
>are beneficial but they are so aggressive that they are "bad guys" in
>my yard.)
>--
>Liz Albrook
>USDA Zone 7, Sunset Zone 3
>North Central Idaho
Scott D. Jung
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Dale P.........
Scott D. Jung wrote:
>
> My problem is that they chase away all my hummers in the fall. They
> are attracted to the feeders and NOT the traps. Any clues as to what
> to do?
>
> Scott
>
> On Mon, 24 Mar 1997 22:08:25 -0800, ealb...@lewiston.com (Liz
> Albrook) wrote:
>
> >This is the time of year for most of us to start our program to keep
> >jellow jackets under control. If you live in an area with yellow
> >jacket problems and the days are warming up it's time to hang up a
> >trap (or more than one, depending on how large your yard is) with a
> >pheromone attractant in it to trap and dispose of those pesky jackets.
> >
> >You'll trap much fewer jackets in the spring than in the fall but the
> >ones you trap in the spring won't breed up those big nests in the
> >fall, either. Spring traps keep my lawn usuable in the fall, and I
> >recommend them to people who have fall jacket problems.
> >
> >If the traps are baited only with the pheromone and no sugar
> >containing substances then you don't need to worry about accidentally
> >trapping bees or other beneficials. (Yes, I know that yellow jackets
> >are beneficial but they are so aggressive that they are "bad guys" in
> >my yard.)
One thing I noticed one day while waiting for a Hummer to come to the
feeder was the Yellow Jackets feeding there.. The dummies would try to
double up and feed two or three at a time...Well when they do that they
wind up grabbing each other and fall to the ground together... Soooo I
just put a bucket of water with a little detergent in it beneath the
feeder, in a week or two the bucket had a couple hundred dead Yellow
Jackets in it...
Dodah....
se...@alaska.net
Scott D. Jung wrote:
>
We won't have a yellow jacket problem here in Anchorage AK until
later...when there's no snow...but when they do come we use an old
salmon carcass and string it from a branch with a five gallon bucket
under it...fill it 2/3 full of water and add a drop of soap. They gorge
themselves and fall into the bucket. Any piece of meat will do also.
dogsnus
Mike Wasmund wrote:
>
> In article <5hg6jr$cs9$1...@thor.atcon.com>, jogi...@atcon.com says...
> >
> >I've never heard of anything to trap yellow jackets and would be very
> >interested in finding out how to go about it. My son is allergic to pollen
> >and weeds and suffered a serious attack a number of years ago by being
> >stung by a wasp.(it must have had pollen on it's stinger). Although he has
> >been very lucky over the past few years I would love to find a way to
> >decrease the amount we get here. Could you please let me know what to do. I
> >check this group every morning so you can respond to either the ng. or
> >email me. Thanks Catherine
> >
> >Liz Albrook <ealb...@lewiston.com> wrote in article
> ><MPG.da10bb39...@news.zippo.com>...
> >> jellow jackets under control.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Liz Albrook
> >> USDA Zone 7, Sunset Zone 3
> >> North Central Idaho
> >>
>
>
> Sterling International, Inc.
> P.O. Box 22o
> Liberty Lake, WA 99019
>
> 1-800-666-6766 (Customer Service Number)
>
> Maker of RESCUE! Yellowjacket Control Trap. Works well!! During height of
> yellow jacket season, I have to empty mine daily (half_full or more).
>
> corporation. I just *like* their product a lot!
>
> Mike
> Whidbey Island WA (USDA Zone 8)
>
> To respond by e-mail, please remove the nsp from the front of my name.
liquid into the trap, do NOT get any on you! You cant smell it, but
the yellowjackets can.
Terri
pi...@bhip.infi.net
I'll bet the smell is heavenly!
Liz Albrook
In article <333DF2...@prodigy.net>, DO...@prodigy.net says...
> Scott D. Jung wrote:
> >
> > My problem is that they chase away all my hummers in the fall. They
> > are attracted to the feeders and NOT the traps. Any clues as to what
> > to do?
In the spring the attractants work well but in the fall they prefer
meat (at least the ones we have here do). I use Rescue traps and, in
the fall, bait them with a bit of that fat-free turkey sold in the
grocery's deli section. They don't bother my hummingbird feeders.
I suspect that the variety of yellowjacket makes a difference. Rescue
has a couple of different formulations of attractants that are sold
based on geographic location that work for different varieties of
jackets. So I'd also say that just because the fall "turkey traps"
work for me doesn't necessarily mean they'd work where you are.