best sweet stuff for wasp traps?

katiel · 13 August 2009 at 8:56PM

Picklepick, I think they drown. And dead wasps apparently attract more wasps.

invisiblecabbage · 13 August 2009 at 9:26PM

I watched a film the other day and was amazed at the things they can train wasps and cockroaches to do .......and as for the mole and guinea-pigs! Maybe you could try the same once you have trapped a wasp.:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

surfsister · 14 August 2009 at 12:38PM

invisiblecabbage wrote: »

I watched a film the other day and was amazed at the things they can train wasps and cockroaches to do .......and as for the mole and guinea-pigs! Maybe you could try the same once you have trapped a wasp.:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Maybe I could train them to kill the other wasps1! lol

surfsister · 15 August 2009 at 5:55PM

total about a 100 now!!

foxgloves · 16 August 2009 at 10:00PM

I also made one of the wasp traps from an old plastic pop bottle - instructions given in earlier post. I put some plum jam in the bottom with a bit of water and hung it outside the morning after I had 27 wasps in the kitchen.....unless it was the same wasp 27 times, of course! No wasps went near it at first, but this morning, when it was very sunny and lots of them about, I noticed there were quite a few in the trap plus a large bluebottle. Definitely worth trying and as you only need an empty bottle, some sellotape & some string to hang it up, it's a freebie to make.

the_gronows · 17 August 2009 at 4:14PM

I bought the trap and bait from lakeland last year. The trap instructions does say thay you can use jam beer or fruit juice, however the bait was extremely effective, I am not sure what was in it but it smelt very strongly of fruit with a kind of artificial fruit flavouring undertone. It reminded me of old fashioned cough medicine.

hungrynurse_2 · 18 August 2009 at 5:33AM

I watched facinated yesterday a wasp and a house fly wwf wrestling on the gravel. Never seen that before, but wasps have their place

Davesnave · 18 August 2009 at 5:43AM

hungrynurse wrote: »

I watched facinated yesterday a wasp and a house fly wwf wrestling on the gravel. Never seen that before, but wasps have their place

Try telling that to the abusive pair who gave Lotus eater and myself a right ear-bashing on another thread last week for suggesting this!

Of course if people don't want wasp nests in their gardens, they have every right to destroy them, but to insist that they are just pests with no function, is to ignore what they do in the months before they get drunk on fruit juice, when they become more of a nuisance.

Molly41 · 18 August 2009 at 12:19PM

Hi,
Just made the honey traps as posted earlier...so the waspies are drunk and die happy in the honey!!!

Working brilliantly...directing the wasps away from my dogs who think its their job to get rid of them and my eldest son who at 6ft4 rugby player is totally phobic of wasps....bleeess

Beccatje · 18 August 2009 at 3:42PM

Davesnave wrote: »

Try telling that to the abusive pair who gave Lotus eater and myself a right ear-bashing on another thread last week for suggesting this!

Of course if people don't want wasp nests in their gardens, they have every right to destroy them, but to insist that they are just pests with no function, is to ignore what they do in the months before they get drunk on fruit juice, when they become more of a nuisance.

Oh ofcourse they have their place. Every living creature does.
But sometimes these creatures get to be a little pesky, sting us and our kids and we really don't want to bite into them when we are eating a picnic.

best sweet stuff for wasp traps?

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