I’ve had two Yellowjackets come after me in as many days. They are chasing away my hummingbirds so I’m glad I found this video. They about to get turned into ice cubes after I get me a trap. Thank you ma’am. 🙏🏼
You can actually make your own traps, which would allow you to hang as many as you want. I’ll leave a description below, but you can Google the project to find more options if you like. You can start out with two 2-Liter soda bottles and cut off the bottoms to each. Remove the caps. (You only need to keep one cap for future use). Keeping both bottles pointed upwards as normal, slide one into the other and glue it. I use gorilla glue. Seal it well with glue because it will need to hold liquid. The inner bottle is now an inverted funnel. You want the inverted funnel because Yellowjackets fly upwards. So, they’ll have a large entrance to fly into the spout and get trapped inside the bottle. They can’t escape because they can’t fly downward. Plus, it’s an inverted funnel, so now the exit is much smaller than how they entered. Get apple cider or apple juice. Add sugar to it. Add rotten fruit if you like. Then mix it with liquid soap. The soap will coat the wings of the Yellowjacket. Once their wings are coated in soap, they lose their ability to fly and will die. Pour the mixture into the outer bottle as if you’re filling a bottle as normal. The bottom is the inverted funnel, so you may spill a little. But the liquid will rest above the funnel. Screw the cap back onto the outer bottle. Tie some yarn around the neck of the bottle and hang it somewhere. Then make as many more traps as you like. 😄 The ice cubes are a nice thought. But these traps can hold hundreds of Yellowjackets. The Yellowjackets don’t care if it’s jam packed. They’ll continue to fly into it and get trapped inside & die. They die pretty quickly anyway as their wings are coated in soap as soon as they touch the liquid. Might as well let the 2-Liter bottle fill up with bodies. You can empty the bottle and reuse it, or simply throw it out and make a new one. These are the best traps imo, but my family loves soda, so I have an never-ending supply of bottles. 😆
I once was stung by over 30 when I was a teen sliding down a mountain. They are vicious. Great advice. Here in Colombia, I don't think I have a problem around my farm, but I am sure they are probably in the forest. Thank you for wearing the Villa Migelita Ecolodge shirt. I will be sharing this video tomorrow because I know how vicious they are. M
Thanks, Michele. These little buggers can be nasty. They don't have barbed stingers like bees, so they can sting multiple times, over and over until they run out of venom.
A small group of wasps had a nest under the siding of a nearby house. They were never much bother until we started feeding hummers last year. This spring I set out traps filled with your wasp juice concoction, and it made a huge difference. Only one or two random wasps since, and activity near the nest stopped completely. Doing it again next year in NE Ohio. Thank you so much for the information.
You are so right about getting the traps out early to get the queens. Unfortunately, they don't just stop in the spring here in southern Idaho. They come again later on. I caught hundreds in traps early on and for two months had none of them. Then, in the last month, they returned with an army to hang with my hummingbird feeders. I have a trap right next to the feeders and it is filling up but the swarms are still at the feeders. Wish I had an answer beyond your very good suggestion.
Really great advice. My husband put one in our backyard the first summer I lived here and put my feeders up for the 1st time. It took years for them to make a comeback. I should have put another out last yr. wouldn’t have got stung. Will get another trap soon. Also, going to make the bee feeder out of my flat feeder. Hi beautiful Fillmore.
That yellow jacket had a positive effect on my arm. I got nailed yesterday & found a BIG NEST. Right near one of my feeders & close to our outdoor picnic area so it’s got to go. Thanks for the advice.
Hummingbird Spot Absolutely. I had a huge nest at the last house. My boys got stung there but not me. Now I’m older, different house, new nest and they came after me for pruning a bush over their home. What a wallop. #whiner 😁
Good tip! I’ve spent the last 20 yrs in and out of incline village and I never saw one yellow jacket - your method must be working well - except it is always in the winter months so that may have something to do with it too 😄
Great advise!!! I consider myself lucky living in central valley and not having to deal with the Yellow J's too often... Thanks for the fix Great Press - Keep Pressing - Press Harder - PRESS NOW Cheers :Jingy™
you're lucky it was just once! usually hit them when mowing the lawn, and hit their nest.. then it's multiple stings... and you're running away from your running lawnmower stripping off your clothes.
This really works. You just have to remember to do it in very early Spring, when you usually are not thinking about yellow jackets. Put it on your calendar!
Thank you! Looking forward to trying this method next spring. For now we’re swamped, so will pick up the traps - hopefully will keep them away from the hummingbird feeders!
Update on our yellow jacket situation. The yellow jackets would not go to my traps - they went to the sugar water every time. I found the solution - purchased Aspects Bird Feeders Hummzinger Hummingbird Nectar Guard Tips for my (Aspects saucer-type) feeders, and they instantly worked like a charm. Easy to clean, too. No more yellow jackets on the deck or harassing the hummingbirds!
Update on our yellow jacket situation. The yellow jackets would not go to my traps - they went to the sugar water every time. I found the solution - purchased Aspects Bird Feeders Hummzinger Hummingbird Nectar Guard Tips for my (Aspects saucer-type) feeders, and they instantly worked like a charm. Easy to clean, too. No more yellow jackets on the deck or harassing the hummingbirds!
When she was very small, my kid sister was stung inside the mouth by a yellowjacket which got into her juice can. It ended up under pop's boot...kerunch. She was alright but cried for a long time! Here in SLO they are an occasional nuisance on my property but very rarely is any interest shown in the feeder. Outdoor gatherings are another thing, and it's there when I wish for one of Elon Musk's flamethrowers. Seeing those attackers spinning down with wings on fire...take that!!! Whooooosh whoooosh
Good move! Let me know how it goes. My birds would arrive when there was still snow on the ground. They would come for the sugar from the holes drilled in trees by sapsuckers. Amazing.
Bees are hard. They have short tongues and don't eat much, so just a drop at the feeder port left behind by a hummer is enough for them. I would suggest saucer feeders rather than vacuum feeders. Put out saucers with stones and water. Sometimes the bees just want water. They need plain water to cool the hive and thin the honey. That's why you always find bees in bird baths and dog dishes. Also, bees prefer flowers to feeders. They like TINY ones, so plant herbs like marjoram and thyme to keep them busy.
As I said in the video, yellow jackets are part of the ecosystem and they feed their young the liquified remains of caterpillars and other bugs we don't like, but this solution is for the ones that get out of control with nests near homes with children, etc. God bless ladybugs - they are voracious aphid eaters!
should i hang a hummingbird feeder with just plain water in it? Maybe you can make a short video answering with your thoughts about just water in hummingbird feeders
They don't bother me. I haven't been stung in years. All kinds of flying insects are necessary for pollination. I only remove nests that are within 2' of doors. I even put out water bowls with a rock for them to climb on.
I will have to do a video on this. Bees prefer flowers to feeders. Plant flowers they like like marjoram, thyme, lavender. They like tiny flowers the best. Don't have colored flowers on your feeders. Bees are attracted to the contrast. Switch to saucer feeders rather than vacuum feeders if you have a real problem. And keep them clean.
Probably not as these traps are specific for yellow jackets. I don't have a wasp problem, but I've heard from many sources that all you have to do is crumple up a paper bag into a ball and attach it under the eaves of your house. Wasps are very territorial and if a wasp thinks there is already a nest there it will stay away. Let me know if this works!
I go outta my way to avoid killing even the smallest forms of life-grasshopper,ant , etc-but make no mistake hornets,wasps and yellowjackets should be wiped off the face of the earth with extreme prejudice regardless the effects in might have on the ecosystem!!
I’ve had two Yellowjackets come after me in as many days. They are chasing away my hummingbirds so I’m glad I found this video. They about to get turned into ice cubes after I get me a trap. Thank you ma’am. 🙏🏼
You can actually make your own traps, which would allow you to hang as many as you want. I’ll leave a description below, but you can Google the project to find more options if you like.
You can start out with two 2-Liter soda bottles and cut off the bottoms to each. Remove the caps. (You only need to keep one cap for future use). Keeping both bottles pointed upwards as normal, slide one into the other and glue it. I use gorilla glue. Seal it well with glue because it will need to hold liquid.
The inner bottle is now an inverted funnel. You want the inverted funnel because Yellowjackets fly upwards. So, they’ll have a large entrance to fly into the spout and get trapped inside the bottle. They can’t escape because they can’t fly downward. Plus, it’s an inverted funnel, so now the exit is much smaller than how they entered.
Get apple cider or apple juice. Add sugar to it. Add rotten fruit if you like. Then mix it with liquid soap. The soap will coat the wings of the Yellowjacket. Once their wings are coated in soap, they lose their ability to fly and will die.
Pour the mixture into the outer bottle as if you’re filling a bottle as normal. The bottom is the inverted funnel, so you may spill a little. But the liquid will rest above the funnel. Screw the cap back onto the outer bottle.
Tie some yarn around the neck of the bottle and hang it somewhere. Then make as many more traps as you like. 😄
The ice cubes are a nice thought. But these traps can hold hundreds of Yellowjackets. The Yellowjackets don’t care if it’s jam packed. They’ll continue to fly into it and get trapped inside & die. They die pretty quickly anyway as their wings are coated in soap as soon as they touch the liquid. Might as well let the 2-Liter bottle fill up with bodies.
You can empty the bottle and reuse it, or simply throw it out and make a new one.
These are the best traps imo, but my family loves soda, so I have an never-ending supply of bottles. 😆
I once was stung by over 30 when I was a teen sliding down a mountain. They are vicious. Great advice. Here in Colombia, I don't think I have a problem around my farm, but I am sure they are probably in the forest. Thank you for wearing the Villa Migelita Ecolodge shirt. I will be sharing this video tomorrow because I know how vicious they are. M
Thanks, Michele. These little buggers can be nasty. They don't have barbed stingers like bees, so they can sting multiple times, over and over until they run out of venom.
A small group of wasps had a nest under the siding of a nearby house. They were never much bother until we started feeding hummers last year. This spring I set out traps filled with your wasp juice concoction, and it made a huge difference. Only one or two random wasps since, and activity near the nest stopped completely. Doing it again next year in NE Ohio. Thank you so much for the information.
You are so right about getting the traps out early to get the queens. Unfortunately, they don't just stop in the spring here in southern Idaho. They come again later on. I caught hundreds in traps early on and for two months had none of them. Then, in the last month, they returned with an army to hang with my hummingbird feeders. I have a trap right next to the feeders and it is filling up but the swarms are still at the feeders. Wish I had an answer beyond your very good suggestion.
You have to catch the queens which emerge long before you start seeing the swarms of workers.
Once you see the workers, the queens are already deep in the hives producing eggs.
Really great advice. My husband put one in our backyard the first summer I lived here and put my feeders up for the 1st time. It took years for them to make a comeback. I should have put another out last yr. wouldn’t have got stung. Will get another trap soon. Also, going to make the bee feeder out of my flat feeder. Hi beautiful Fillmore.
Thank you, Ginger! Fillmore says hi back!
That yellow jacket had a positive effect on my arm. I got nailed yesterday & found a BIG NEST. Right near one of my feeders & close to our outdoor picnic area so it’s got to go. Thanks for the advice.
Now you know how to prevent this for next year!
Hummingbird Spot Absolutely. I had a huge nest at the last house. My boys got stung there but not me. Now I’m older, different house, new nest and they came after me for pruning a bush over their home. What a wallop. #whiner 😁
Good tip! I’ve spent the last 20 yrs in and out of incline village and I never saw one yellow jacket - your method must be working well - except it is always in the winter months so that may have something to do with it too 😄
Haha - I'm glad to know that I single handedly decreased the population of yellow jackets in the Tahoe area!
Great advise!!!
I consider myself lucky living in central valley and not having to deal with the Yellow J's too often...
Thanks for the fix
Great Press - Keep Pressing - Press Harder - PRESS NOW
Cheers
:Jingy™
Thanks! Not so much of a problem here in Studio City either. But they are really bad in many areas of the country.
Great advice. I was stung by one once.
And unlike bees that can only sting you once, they can sting you several times!
Me, too! Terrible burning sensation. Took a couple of weeks to heal.
you're lucky it was just once! usually hit them when mowing the lawn, and hit their nest.. then it's multiple stings... and you're running away from your running lawnmower stripping off your clothes.
If you get wasps hang out catchers in the beginning of March to catch the queens first because if no queen no nest.
Awesome advice! Thank you!!
This is exactly how to solve the problem. 👍🏻🤍
Great point…an ounce of prevention…
This really works. You just have to remember to do it in very early Spring, when you usually are not thinking about yellow jackets. Put it on your calendar!
@@HummingbirdSpot great idea! Thanks!
When should I put the traps out in GA? The jackets here come out usually in mid Sept
The queens come out of their hiding places in early spring.
Thank you very much..great to know!
Thank you! Looking forward to trying this method next spring. For now we’re swamped, so will pick up the traps - hopefully will keep them away from the hummingbird feeders!
Update on our yellow jacket situation. The yellow jackets would not go to my traps - they went to the sugar water every time. I found the solution - purchased Aspects Bird Feeders Hummzinger Hummingbird Nectar Guard Tips for my (Aspects saucer-type) feeders, and they instantly worked like a charm. Easy to clean, too. No more yellow jackets on the deck or harassing the hummingbirds!
Update on our yellow jacket situation. The yellow jackets would not go to my traps - they went to the sugar water every time. I found the solution - purchased Aspects Bird Feeders Hummzinger Hummingbird Nectar Guard Tips for my (Aspects saucer-type) feeders, and they instantly worked like a charm. Easy to clean, too. No more yellow jackets on the deck or harassing the hummingbirds!
When she was very small, my kid sister was stung inside the mouth by a yellowjacket which got into her juice can. It ended up under pop's boot...kerunch. She was alright but cried for a long time! Here in SLO they are an occasional nuisance on my property but very rarely is any interest shown in the feeder. Outdoor gatherings are another thing, and it's there when I wish for one of Elon Musk's flamethrowers. Seeing those attackers spinning down with wings on fire...take that!!! Whooooosh whoooosh
Wow. I know just how you would feel with that flamethrower! LOL
Just moved my hummingbird feeders 15 feet apart and put a big red bucket outside because I have no flowers yet so cold here
Good move! Let me know how it goes. My birds would arrive when there was still snow on the ground. They would come for the sugar from the holes drilled in trees by sapsuckers. Amazing.
@@HummingbirdSpot I will ty
Hi philmore
Great advise. I'll go get some of those traps right away. However, my problem are bees. Any advise to keep them away?
Bees are hard. They have short tongues and don't eat much, so just a drop at the feeder port left behind by a hummer is enough for them. I would suggest saucer feeders rather than vacuum feeders. Put out saucers with stones and water. Sometimes the bees just want water. They need plain water to cool the hive and thin the honey. That's why you always find bees in bird baths and dog dishes. Also, bees prefer flowers to feeders. They like TINY ones, so plant herbs like marjoram and thyme to keep them busy.
Hi! Wouldn't some yellow jackets be beneficial for aphid control in the garden?
As I said in the video, yellow jackets are part of the ecosystem and they feed their young the liquified remains of caterpillars and other bugs we don't like, but this solution is for the ones that get out of control with nests near homes with children, etc. God bless ladybugs - they are voracious aphid eaters!
Where do you get the yellowjack traps from
Any hardware store or fromAmazon.
should i hang a hummingbird feeder with just plain water in it? Maybe you can make a short video answering with your thoughts about just water in hummingbird feeders
There is no reason for the hummingbirds to frequent a feeder with just water.
@@HummingbirdSpot thanks, just wanted to ask!
They don't bother me. I haven't been stung in years. All kinds of flying insects are necessary for pollination. I only remove nests that are within 2' of doors. I even put out water bowls with a rock for them to climb on.
Ugh I’m Midwest too late??
You might be, but I would do it immediately anyway. You will be able to recognize the queen if you get one. Otherwise, file this for next year!
how do you keep Bees away from the hummingbird feeder?
I will have to do a video on this. Bees prefer flowers to feeders. Plant flowers they like like marjoram, thyme, lavender. They like tiny flowers the best. Don't have colored flowers on your feeders. Bees are attracted to the contrast. Switch to saucer feeders rather than vacuum feeders if you have a real problem. And keep them clean.
Would that work for WASPS? We have wasps like, I don't know there's a lot here, also where did you find that thingy?
Probably not as these traps are specific for yellow jackets. I don't have a wasp problem, but I've heard from many sources that all you have to do is crumple up a paper bag into a ball and attach it under the eaves of your house. Wasps are very territorial and if a wasp thinks there is already a nest there it will stay away. Let me know if this works!
@@HummingbirdSpot these are not paper wasps, they make nests anywhere, whether it's the size of a quarter to a yard, they're terrible here.
@@HummingbirdSpot forgot to mention, we ordered some of those traps, they're on their way😊doesn't hurt to try
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I go outta my way to avoid killing even the smallest forms of life-grasshopper,ant , etc-but make no mistake hornets,wasps and yellowjackets should be wiped off the face of the earth with extreme prejudice regardless the effects in might have on the ecosystem!!
I agree !!
Bumble bees are ground nesters. Please be very careful that you are killing yellowjackets, not bees.
The pheromone attractant that goes inside the yellow jacket traps will not attract bees. It is specific to yellow jackets.
Well that in no way told me how to get them off my humming bird feeder.
If you follow my advice, you won't have any yellow jackets next year.