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Thu, Apr 6, 06 at 22:25
| I've seen some nice glass containers in my garden catalogs designed to capture wasp but I can't see myself spending the money they want. Have any of you ever made any kind of wasp trap that was useful but less expensive? |
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- Posted by socks12345 (My Page) on Fri, Apr 7, 06 at 23:27
| Do they put something in the glass containers and the wasps go in and cannot go out? If so, why couldn't you use a 1 liter bottle? I suppose you put something meaty or something sweet in them. |
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| I take the two liter pop bottle, cut it about an inch under the top rib. Making basically a funnel. :-) Invert that into the bottom part, staple together. Be sure you get it as close together as possible, if not just put a little tape around the top to close it so they can't get out there. Put/staple on a string to hang, making sure it goes through the two pieces. Add about an inch or so of sugar water. They can get in but can't get out. Every year I have about 3 green "bottles" placed around (a distance from where we are), they for some reason are more attracted to the green bottles. Worked ever year so far and oddly enough I have never found any honey bees in there. Hope that helps. :-) |
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| this might cost some money, but, abc distributing has them for only 6 bucks, and they look nice too! i know thats not exactly 'free' but, that is cheap. Blessed Be, |
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| Thanks for the lead to ABC distributing! Similar items elsewhere were pretty pricey. I went ahead and ordered several to put aroung our property. |
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