Wasp Traps Update

So I decided I better do a follow up post on all those wasp traps that I made. I honestly don’t think I would recommend any of them now that I tried them. Each of the pop bottles only caught a few bugs, but mostly it was nothing. This could be because it’s been raining like crazy here so the trap bait would have had quite a bit of water in it. Or it could be because the pop bottle hole is too big and bugs can easily find their ways in and then back out again. Or it could be that I depleted the amount of wasps around my house with my original two traps. Personally I think it is that one. We no longer have a ton of wasps around our house. Sometimes they might be one or two but they are no longer just caked on our front door and bouncing around in our house. And we have a lot of other bugs. I now need to find a way to get rid of some June Bugs and some Gnats…and probably some mosquitoes after all of this rain.  

                

These are pictures of the wasp traps that I have in my yard, and that I’ve found to be successful. I bought two of them at Running’s but I’m sure you could find them at any farm store, or maybe WalMart. Possibly home fix it stores like Home Depot or Menards. But I know for sure you can get them at a Farm Store.

The tops screws off so you can fill it easily and empty it back out once its full of the wasps, and other bugs that tend to get caught in there. And the bottom I’m sure is designed to catch queens or something, it doesn’t really catch many wasps. But it is amazing at catching box elder bugs. The bottom also screws off so you can clean it out. The little cone part will also detach from the screwing bottom so anything stuck in there can be rinsed out as well.

Hopefully you won’t need them though. Now I’m off to figure out how to trap my other pests.