Fly Bug Wasp Trap Killer

JJJJNR

Just bought two of these for our garden, great price. We get plagued with wasps, bees and flys etc during the summer so it will be nice to see if it works and lowers the bee and wasp count.

vibe666

make up some sugar water and cut the top off the top of a 2L drink bottle just below the neck & shoulders and invert it, then fill about 1/4 to 1/2full with the sugar water, job done. wasps in, no wasps out.

g0g

vibe666 wrote: »

make up some sugar water and cut the top off the top of a 2L drink bottle just below the neck & shoulders and invert it, then fill about 1/4 to 1/2full with the sugar water, job done. wasps in, no wasps out.

This might sound like a stupid question, but how would you hold liquid in an upside down bottle with no top (i.e. bottom) on it? Or is it the top of the bottle you're inverting?

Farls

g0g wrote: »

This might sound like a stupid question, but how would you hold liquid in an upside down bottle with no top (i.e. bottom) on it? Or is it the top of the bottle you're inverting?

Turn the top of the bottle that you just cut off upside down and place into the open bottom of the bottle that contains the mixture.

vibe666

g0g wrote: »

This might sound like a stupid question, but how would you hold liquid in an upside down bottle with no top (i.e. bottom) on it? Or is it the top of the bottle you're inverting?

like this:

Pique

Not meaning to be the resident hippy, but the last thing we need is to be killing bees. They're dying off thanks to pesticides the likes of rapeseed seeds are coated in.

Save the bees :-)

jd83

Pique wrote: »

Not meaning to be the resident hippy, but the last thing we need is to be killing bees. They're dying off thanks to pesticides the likes of rapeseed seeds are coated in.

Save the bees :-)

Yh bees are cool they just do there thing and leave you alone as long as you leave them alone.

Wasp on the other hand are terrible. They just looking to sting you. Someone should invent one that just attracts wasps.

mp3ireland2

If you don't put liquid in it and just sugar you could just release them if u didn't want to kill them.... empty it every day far away from ur house? don't really know how much addition that would be though if they just return to the hive or nest beside ur house....

like this dude

http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/the-2-liter-soda-bottle-wasp-t-43290

vibe666

Pique wrote: »

Not meaning to be the resident hippy, but the last thing we need is to be killing bees. They're dying off thanks to pesticides the likes of rapeseed seeds are coated in.

Save the bees :-)

i've never caught any bees in mine as far as i can remember, although i've got dozens of wasps. i imagine the whole in the bottle is probably too small for a bee to comfortably fit through, whereas a wasp would slip right in.

if you were really bothered, you could make the hole in the bottle a little smaller to keep the bees out but still let the wasps in.

ablelocks

the waspinator is supposed to do the trick.

mathepac

If you want to control wasps but not harm bees, puncture a a couple of holes in a marmalade / jam-jar lid with a narrow round-bladed screw-driver. Make sure the jar / lid haven't been too well scraped out. Put an inch of water in the bottom and put the lid back on. Leave it outside in a sunny spot where the wasps will be attracted to it.

The narrow holes allow the wasps in but keep the bees out.

Jesus Wept

Pique wrote: »

Not meaning to be the resident hippy, but the last thing we need is to be killing bees. They're dying off thanks to pesticides the likes of rapeseed seeds are coated in.

Save the bees :-)

**** them and the wasps, they always try to sting me.

mathepac

Andy Carroll wrote: »

**** them and the wasps, they always try to sting me.

I think you may be confused as to the difference. Neither is overly aggressive with bees being very docile. Hornets wasps and other flying yokes usually leave people alone unless you provoke them. (Not friggin' midges though) Bees die once they sting you but wasps can have several goes at you and thus are very dangerous.

vibe666

bees are fine, but wasps are a bunch of nasty angry bastards who love nothing better than to fcuk up your day by buzzing all around you waiting to stab you with their poisonous pointy arse at any opportunity.

moodrater

Pique wrote: »

Not meaning to be the resident hippy, but the last thing we need is to be killing bees. They're dying off thanks to pesticides the likes of rapeseed seeds are coated in.

Save the bees :-)

Lots of hives lost here last year, no queens
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2012/0330/breaking20.html