[Vision2020] Bees

[Jay Borden]

Take a shallow pan and fill it with an inch or two of soapy water...
(Dawn, etc)... enough soap so that it froths up a bit.

 

Put it near/around your swarm.

 

Sit a distance back with your favorite beverage and watch the yellow
jackets fall into the thing... it beats any yellow jacket trap I have
tried.

 

When the buggers come in to get a drink, the soap lowers the surface
tension of the water, causing the yellow jackets to fall into the pan
and drown.  

 

We just came back from camping this weekend from the middle of
Washington... and used this trick to kill well over 1000 of the
creatures over a 48 hour period.  

 

Makes for good TV in the middle of nowhere.

 

 

Jay

 

From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com
[mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com] On Behalf Of Ellen Roskovich
Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2011 2:15 PM
To: janesta at gmail.com; ringoshirl at moscow.com
Cc: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Bees

 


Not very many berries on the mountain ash this year, so I was hoping for
a mild winter.  However, the yellow jackets are insane this year.  Never
have I seen so many nests  and I don 't remember them being so nasty
past summers.  Got stung numerous times and chased into the house last
week.
 
Ellen A. Roskovich

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Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 12:23:16 -0700
From: janesta at gmail.com
To: ringoshirl at moscow.com
CC: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Bees

An old wives tale, or true?

Lots of bees, wasps, and yellow jackets... means you all are in for
another hard winter!

Look at the Mountain Ash trees, if they are pregnant with berries, it
means the same thing...




On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Shirley Ringo <ringoshirl at moscow.com>
wrote:

We've had lots of yellow jackets lately.  Luckily, I found three big
nests before they found me.  Only one sting so far.

Shirley
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Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2011 11:14 AM
Subject: [Vision2020] Bees





Yesterday I was clearing out some dead bushes and trees from the bank
behind the house. I ran in to a nest of yellow jackets.By the time I
made it to the house I had about 12 to 13 stings. Six or so came in the
house with me. I had a few more stings before I killed them. I stayed
inside for awhile and watched out the window. The air was full of them.
My right eye is still about half closed. I do not remember yellow jacket
stings bothering me that much. These must be some hybrid version.
I am not sure where their nest is, so I am done with that project until
it gets cold or until next year.
Roger

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