What is best bait for wasp trap
The BEST Yellow Jacket Wasp Trap and Best Bait to Use in Fall Trap Wasps or Hornets, NOT BEES
okay so today I'm gonna show you something that I think may be
interesting to you this time of year it's October 4th and we have wasps going
everywhere and they're in high competition for the last resources of
the summer and autumn so you may be thinking about trapping them and
diverting them from your honeybees because if you'll notice in this trap
and I'll leave a link to this trap that I've chosen in the description of the
video but in this trap we don't just have nectar although there is apple
juice in the bottom there is a strip of bacon hanging down the middle now one
thing you'll notice you don't see in this trap and that's honey bees honey
bees don't care about animal protein all of their protein comes from pollen from
plants so in this trap and this is a trap design that I've been using for
several years kinda has its drawbacks but in my opinion it's the best trap
that's out there and has worked the best for me you can wash it out sometimes
that seemed it's in two pieces and it's been glued together that seam may leak a
little but this one is not leaking yet but anyway let's get on with that how
the lure works I don't buy the prepared lures that the trap companies are
selling we just put apple juice in here and then that strip a bacon satisfies
their need for protein so when these wasps fly by and smell that bacon they
go right in there so it's a dual purpose trap because that also those that are
out seeking nectar will respond to that apple juice and they'll come into the
trap also I also recommend that you kind of leave some fluid in the bottom so
that you can drown the wasps if you need to notice that there's a string going
through the top and that was my wife's idea she hung that bacon out there and
she's the one that heated it up in the microwave for like 10 seconds or
something just to get the aroma of that meat in the air but I don't think that's
necessary because they are very sensitive and they're all flying in from
downwind so they're definitely finding it that way and it's designed to suspend
from an overhang or from a tree or something near your house you want to
keep it away from where people are because you will be attracting wasps
so notice that they're coming in they're going after the bacon I get these you're
conical-shaped entry points that are four on the bottom and just two on top
and we strap this to a it's the top of a suet feeder in my backyard but I strap
it down instead of hanging it somewhere because I don't like them swinging all
over the place now you may notice that I'm holding a pipette here and I'm
putting little drips next to it and there's a little wasp on the pipette
after what I'm dripping there and that is just the standard 50/50 sugar water
that we may often feed to bees if they're not producing enough on their
own or if they need something during a dearth period and the wasps are no
different they go after that same 50/50 sugar water so why would I feed them I
mean if I'm trying to trap them why would I put out sugar water outside the
trap well because these wasps are social insects and if we're just trapping them
they're gonna fly in be attracted to the apple juice or the bacon if they need
the protein and they'll go in the trap and that's it they're there the rest of
the wasps back in their nest have no clue where that wasp went and why it
didn't return so what I do is I add drips of sugar water provide feed
outside let these wasps fill up on it then they'll fly back to their nest and
communicate to the others that there's a resource of nectar which is their
carbohydrate and other members of that nest will come out and they'll also be
attracted to this location then ultimately I just allow the supplemental
feeding to dry up and what's left at the location the trap so then they'll all go
in so we want to make sure that some feed and get away so they can come back
and bring others so this is the trap and this is them drinking sugar water and
there's almost nothing else really to talk about other than what is a wasp do
with the protein that it gets so often some of the larger wasps especially will
kill our honeybees and they'll take the thorax from that
honeybee and they'll bundle it up and make a little protein pellet they take
it back to their nest they feed it to the developing larvae and in return the
larvae loses out a carbohydrate nectar type fluid that the workers also eat so
there's a reward system this encourages the loss to go out kill small animals
tear off bits of protein and fly it back home and feed the larvae the larvae that
are developing this time of year when they are capped up ultimately will
likely become Queens and those are the ones that will seek hiding places
through winter and in the spring each of those Queens will be starting its own
nest so it's kind of important to go ahead and knock these out of the
ballpark this time of year because the impact on that colony and how many
colonies you'll have next year is much more potent so that's about all I have
to say again I'm going to put a link to this wasp trap in the description of the
video and I'm just gonna let you watch these things drink sugar water and let
you marvel at the design of these wasps thank you for watching as always and I
hope you subscribed in an upcoming video I will be comparing the industrial
pheromone lures for these wasp traps and we'll just see if they're better than
this I don't think they are but we'll see if they're better than this and also
a comparison of the two top rated ones thanks for watching
