How to make the EASIEST Yellow Jacket Bee Trap

This is the EASIEST, most ECONOMICAL Yellow Jacket Bee Trap you can make, and your also helping our environment by recycling. There are NO harmful chemicals and you make it right in your own kitchen with common ingredients found in all kitchens/pantries. Honey Bees ARE NOT attracted to this trap.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• 1 - Empty plastic water bottle.
• 1/2 \-3/4 cup of any juice
• 1 teaspoon granulated sugar
• small pieces of raw meat, fish, tuna or cat food.
• String or twine.

1. 
    
   Empty water bottle; juice; sugar; meat (see article) twine or string'

   Gather all your ingredients.

2. With a screwdriver or small knife, put 4 holes around the top of the bottle about 3/4" big. They do not need to be round. Just large enough for a bee to enter.

3. Add 1/3-2/3 cup juice to your bottle. Any fruit or vegitable juice will work. Add 1 teaspoon of sugar and 1 or 2 pieces of raw meat, tuna or cat food. It dosen't need to be fresh. I cut a piece of hamberger right from my freezer if I don't have a can of tuna or cat food already opened.

4. 
    
   Can either be hung or placed away from children or pets that might disturb it.

   Swirl contents to mix. Place in your yard out of children's reach (of course) near a fruit tree or flower bed or where you see the Bees. Optional: Tie string or twine around the rim of the bottle to hang on a tree limb or cloths line. Sometimes I just hammer a nail in a tree to hang the trap.

5. 
    
   Hang it on a cloths line or tree limb

   When you think it is full enough with bees, just toss it in the trash and start a new one. I have left some that have been solid black with bees and it was still attracting more bees.

Tips & Warnings

• A bonus is that this trap also attracts wasps and flys but Honey Bees are NOT attracted to it.
• Keep away from small children and pets. Even a dead bee can give a mighty sting.

[krystilou]

on 7/28/2009 In the last 4 years since I have using this method to kill yellow jackets, I have never found a honey bee in any of the bottles.

[krystilou]

on 7/28/2009 It took about 30 minutes the other day when I put one out. By the end of the day there were too many to count.

[bugboy1]

on 5/4/2009 Very nice, but it is important not to confuse wasps and honey bees, which are two very different insects. Even though some people call yellow jackets "sweat bees", they are not bees. They are wasps, like mud daubers, hornets, and paper wasps.

[AmerAwad]

on 7/20/2008 About how many mintues until the first bee goes in the bottle? P.S. I used apple juice