Thank you for actually running a test! So many other things are just re-posts of re-posts that doesn’t seem like anyone ever checked if their solutions worked.

Thank you for the video! I will definitely be trying these very soon. Our neighborhood is plagued by wasps from spring till fall. Hopefully this can help even a fraction at keeping the wasps at bay this year in our yard!

Thanks for testing the different liquids, very helpful! I've got an issue with mud daubers in my garage, so crossing my fingers that this works.

I've tried a lot of wasp traps featured on KZfaq and this design you show here is vastly superior to all I've tried. The old pop bottle trick is the best for immediate wasp elimination in a certain area. For long term elimination the Boric Acid technique is great.

This is awesome!! Just got attacked by wasps and stung multiple times. OUCH. Time to set some traps. I did spray the bushes with a mixture of soap and peppermint along my walkway which is actually keeping them away but is only short-term. Need to make sure they stay away for my dog's safety! Appreciate this!!

Nice and simple comparison. Another site mentions putting meat (chicken leftovers) above the soapy water, too.

I wish I knew about this earlier but glad to see it now. I've made a trap with jam the other night. Thanks for sharing!

I learned new things today. Thanks!

Thx for the comparison, will try it.

Beer/cider is a good one to use as bait.. hence why pubs always have wasps going for half empty glasses

Thank you Bob!

Thankyou. I will try this NOW! I have several black wasps flying around my patio and I’m afraid to go out there to turn the water on to water my citrus trees. There are so many flying around. Thank you for testing the different solutions. Hope I don’t get stung putting up the trap ha ha. 😳

Well done !

Thanks Bob!

Thanks 4 sharing Brotha

You should try meat instead of jam. Wasps are carnivores, they don't come to the beehive for honey, they come for larva. They eat worms and stuff. Just tie some pieces of chicken meat round the neck of the bottle (outside of the "funnel"), before turning it upside down and scotching it, then add some water with few drops of liquid wash, the one used for dishes, with no smell or very light smell (the thing has to smell "meaty"). The water has to come about 1-2 cm under the "funnel" (so the wasps can go inside without touching the water, walk around to eat the meat, which is on the top of the trap, they are very greedy, they take a chunk of meat and drop into the water, the soap acts as surfactant, so the wasp can't swim out of the water). Try and see. You will get 500 times better result.

Hey Bob, thanks guy

Good information, thanks for making this video.

Making a couple today. Thanks

I've just tried to cover my compost hive for a couple of days, but they are still swarming aggressively. I just made a bottle. Can't wait for tommorews count ;)

That soap has a ton of perfume. I put these traps out at the first wasp sighting to get the scouts, which prevents the nests.

I made trap same as this but used melon seeds, skin which still had slight bit of flesh on it. and a little touch of honey plus a tiny dash of rum.. works a treat the rum replaces the soap which can deter some wasps, instead of sinking because of the loss of surface tension they drown drunk

You can add a little baker's yeast to make the juices ferment and smell even more. That's what all these insects love, the smell of rotting fruit to know that it's ripe, sweet and juicy.

Beginning of season you should use meat, at or nearing end of season you should use the fruity sweet stuff. Because at the beginning of season they need proteins for their nest and they will be more of a nuisance at that time as well. They gotta keep the queen happy!!

I'm using jam and water too, this Summer.

Thanks 🙏 I’ve got a serious wasp problem, I’ve had over 100 enter my house via the fireplace.

Thanks a lot I made one and within 15 minutes I had 3 wasps

Would this also work inside the house when you have 2 paper wasp on your room?

Also, according to a lot of references, they go for protein early/ mid summer; towards late summer and fall they prefer sugar. Canned chicken is recommended as a protein bait.

I just saw a wasp today in a room that connects to my house. I usually call my dad to take care of it, but I'm going to try doing this on my own for once..

I made a discovery to kill yellow jackets crawling through openings near your home/shed etc! Place glue traps near the hole! Where they land etc! I killed over 30-40 in a days time that way! Diminish the colony… then you can attack without so many swarming or harming ya! I was able to open my storage unit find the nest/hive & kill the rest! (None were flying around when I was finally able to go in unit safely)! Best eradication I’ve experienced besides wasp spray foam into a ground nest! Many methods thank goodness! Jus try not to get stung! 😮😅😂 ikr!👌💪👋🏻✌️

good job

Ty

I had some commercial traps that were similar but used two side openings. I had some hornets with a nest near my back porch and they got defensive especially at night when I'd go out on it. I tried a suggestion of orange juice (no soap) which didn't have much results at first. Then once the orange juice started fermenting, they were on those traps like a starving dog to a steak. The traps filled so fast I had to empty them repeatedly just so more could fit in them. I imagine it would work the same for yellow jackets and other types of wasps.

What's the purpose of the tape?

What time of year did you set out your traps? Here in TN, red paper wasps bombard my shed and porch in the spring but even more so in October. I've been stung and my dog was stung all in the last week! I have a garden so don't want to risk hurting any pollinators but these red paper wasps have got to go. I think they have nested inside my shed roof under the new tin and old roof.

Thank you for the video. Can I set it on the ground or does it have to hang?

Important to add vinegar te repel bees

Hey does this work for those Red Stinging Wasps?

But do you catch the queen because if you are just catching the explorers it doesn’t solve the problem.

I have at least 10 wasp nest on my porch, and i like to sit outside a lot, i can't get the nest down myself, I'm only 5ft tall and allergic to BEES, I'm gonna try this, thank you for the video✌️

We make something very similar...we use honey ..we just drizzle straight honey around the inside and let it just coat the sides as it drips into just plain water in the inside...nothing else...we haven't had any issues w honey bees getting trapped but lots of wasps..yellow jacets..and even hornets...we tried several items and just straight honey works best..

I tried Grape jam + water, then cold ham slices + water, then Apple cider vinegar + water, Honey + water ... and not one of them works ???? Are these super genius wasps or something ???

It's been raining a lot here but we don't have anything we can hang the trap under to prevent it from filling with rain water. Anything to add to this to help prevent that?

I have one of those wasp trap and with a paper whasp

I just tried the one with jam, water and dish soap and didn't get hardly anything! I even cut some slits in funnel to get the aroma of the jelly for them to come. They're going in but not getting caught and just flying out. Does it matter where I hang it? Right now it's just a few feet from the feeder. Should it be a little further away?

Just made one. instead i put fresh fruit, fruit puree, pomegranate juice, water, and dish soap. Didn't have any jam so just put a bunch of stuff from my fridge in there. Hopefully it works, we got a bad wasp problem

Is the jam good for spring time, and will it work on those paper wasps?

Not having any luck catching these wasps. I have a full garden of flowers and veggies and fruit trees they dont want my traps. However, noticed they like standing water so maybe i will collect some of that.

I've used similar traps in the past, and got best results with boring orange juice. The soap doesn't deter them?

How do these keep the wasps and such in like why don’t they just fly right back out the huge hole?

Very effective with just honey, water and a dash of soap. Thank you

For this trap beer is the best

What keeps them from flying back out?

"So long sucka..." lol Well done good sir.

With my traps it took longer to get the wasps with pop and meat. About a week, then they really start coming especially after the the liquid dehydrates. Who knew?

Does anyone know if this'll work with paper wasps?

Whats the best thing now this time of year, last weeks of august into September?

Like everyone else here, I have a little wasp problem. I have been stung several times. Not nice. I have made one of these to test it out. But I am a little confused. Here is my question. Is the idea that the wasps can fly in the hold but they cannot fly out? Also I did not have any Jam, just preserves. I figure it is the same thing as it has sugar in it.

This past summer of 2023, they mostly came to raspberry jam water, strawberry jam water and Orange Crush soda.

Would the trap affect the bees as well?

How much water did you use

i don't see a mention of how to keep honey bees from falling into these traps. I have heard that adding a little vinegar to the solution will keep bees out but not wasps and hornets. Can anyone comment, or is there another solution. We certainly don't want to endanger the honey bees. Thank you.

We’re they actually wasps you were catching?

And what about when they want protein, not sugar? And what about making a homemade poison they’ll take back to the nest?

My dog just got neutered and he loves to be out on the veranda. Since he can't go for walks and adventures the veranda is his best friend. Our other dog also loves it out there and he's only four months old. Unfortunately we found a bunch of wasps hanging out around the veranda. I know there's a nest somewhere but I don't know where. Just set one of these traps, I hope they work. I really don't want my little boy to get stung on top of having surgery yesterday. Thank you for the idea, really hoping this works 🤞

Hello .... is it strawberry jam ?

Does it also trap bees? which would not be a good thing.

What kind of jam did you use? Any specific type of jam?

It only caught flys only😢

what flavour of jam ?

Just put a jam mix under a small paper wasp nest to test it. Will report back 🤞

Yes hang a chunk of rancid chicken or hotdogs watch what you get. Only problem with those DIY Traps is when it rains you have to dump and rebait. Amazon 2 traps 15.00

Try beer. They like it a lot

I made a cool trap by just leaving my pint jar of Irish cream (half gone) sitting out on the picnic table for a couple of days and caught all kinds of bugs.

I have 3 traps out, one with the jam mix, the sugar water mix, and one with straight honey. Not a single bee. Not sure what I'm doing wrong

Can I use jelly?

I did this and did not catch one bee or wasp🙄 and I made the bottle/ ingredients the very same way. Don’t know why it hasn’t worked for me🤷‍♀️

Meat is the best bait, whatever the wasps naturally eat, for me deer meat works great

question does this work on Asian hornet bees

Thanks dog got stung had to go to vet expensive

wsps eat meat and sweets at different times of the season.. generally summer months they go for meat while spring they eat sweets...

Sugar, apple juice, and yeast

Motts apple juice. Done.

Why soap?

I'm using diluted red wine,. Let's see how it goes !

Soda 80% and 20% water. It’s all the sugar they like

Yeah i dont wanna kill bees

Wasp up

Ok never mind

@2:25 I'd probably leave too if I stumbled across a Colossal Titan taking a video of a bunch of giant see-through chambers that contained the corpses of my loved ones.

I do an "umbrella" with another empty bottle so there's no rain that goes inside... that's the missing part to make a "flawless" trap

I tried this and not one wasp. I'm so shocked I thought for sure it would of worked. I did the water and jam and apple juice and jam and not one customer. .....??

I use cheap beer, Sugar and a Little amount of honey on the Door. Just a touch

That isn't wasps. That was yellow jackets.

I usually just use an electric fly swatter until the rest of the squad stings my face

HMM

Does this kill bees? I don't want to kill my bee friends... :-)

"He" didn't leave, "She" did. 😏

That looked like a honeybee not a wasp,