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Yellow Jacket Bait #7911715
07/23/23 11:42 AM
07/23/23 11:42 AM
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We have a colony of these monsters living in a hole under the cement border of my wife's flower bed. She has been stung a few times and wants to get rid of them. I bought a yellow jacket trap. For bait, I used apple juice, sugar, and a piece of raw pork. But, they don't seem interested in it. So, I changed to straight Coke. That doesn't seem to work either.

I know some of you have had good luck with baiting them. Any suggestions?


As an American I'm growing tired of our ancestors being compared to the migrants of today.
Re: Yellow Jacket Bait [Re: Trapper7] #7911717
07/23/23 11:44 AM
07/23/23 11:44 AM
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St. Cloud, MN
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Canned chicken.


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Re: Yellow Jacket Bait [Re: Trapper7] #7911729
07/23/23 11:55 AM
07/23/23 11:55 AM
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St. Cloud, MN
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Re: Yellow Jacket Bait [Re: Trapper7] #7911731
07/23/23 11:58 AM
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Your wife?


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just put your ear to the ground , and follow along

Re: Yellow Jacket Bait [Re: Trapper7] #7911736
07/23/23 12:04 PM
07/23/23 12:04 PM
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Go out at night and give a drink of gasoline...directly in the hole.


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Re: Yellow Jacket Bait [Re: Trapper7] #7911747
07/23/23 12:49 PM
07/23/23 12:49 PM
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Three Lakes,WI 73
They always come around when I clean fish.


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Re: Yellow Jacket Bait [Re: Trapper7] #7911751
07/23/23 12:58 PM
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Tennessee
I fill their entrance hole with sevin dust after dark.

Takes a few days but they eventfully disappear.

Re: Yellow Jacket Bait [Re: Tom Riley] #7911754
07/23/23 01:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Tom Riley
I fill their entrance hole with sevin dust after dark.

Takes a few days but they eventfully disappear.


This.

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Re: Yellow Jacket Bait [Re: Trapper7] #7911756
07/23/23 01:12 PM
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Molotov cocktail! Place it and light it at night…then run!

Re: Yellow Jacket Bait [Re: Trapper7] #7911760
07/23/23 01:27 PM
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Re: Yellow Jacket Bait [Re: Trapper7] #7911764
07/23/23 01:32 PM
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Caned chicken 10 oz 1/4 tsp of tarus sc mixed well.. put in wire cage so you don't kill anything unintentionally.

Re: Yellow Jacket Bait [Re: Swamp Wolf] #7911775
07/23/23 01:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Swamp Wolf
Go out at night and give a drink of gasoline...directly in the hole.



This but I take it a step further…I do it during the daytime and light it on fire…I get a lot of satisfaction seeing them try to get back into the burning hole!

Re: Yellow Jacket Bait [Re: Providence Farm] #7911778
07/23/23 01:57 PM
07/23/23 01:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Providence Farm
Caned chicken 10 oz 1/4 tsp of tarus sc mixed well.. put in wire cage so you don't kill anything unintentionally.



I tried this for the first time this year and I can't get the bald face hornets or yellowjackets to go anywhere near it.


I have nothing clever to put here.





Re: Yellow Jacket Bait [Re: Trapper7] #7911809
07/23/23 03:54 PM
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I sprayed dawn and water to kill the nest they took residence on the back door at my House. Then put axel grease where the nest was ain't been back.

Re: Yellow Jacket Bait [Re: Trapper7] #7911811
07/23/23 03:58 PM
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Just observation—. I don’t see many yellow jackets or wasps this time of year unless wander into nest. They don’t seem to be flying by house or buildings much or on hummingbird feeder. But in another 3-4 weeks I see them in huge numbers when I’m extracting honey. I’m speculating the nest sizes and population isn’t quite at peak yet and they aren’t in such the frenzied feeding. Id think the bsit stations work now if you are right on location by nest but probably not as good farther away you get. My mom always made the plastic bottle traps and hung them in august and she’d get huge numbers of them then

Re: Yellow Jacket Bait [Re: Trapper7] #7911822
07/23/23 04:44 PM
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Re: Yellow Jacket Bait [Re: Trapper7] #7911825
07/23/23 04:46 PM
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Mountain Dew is good bait for the traps but you are better off with the sevin down the hole after dark to eliminate the entire colony.


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Re: Yellow Jacket Bait [Re: Trapper7] #7911829
07/23/23 04:49 PM
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I have sprayed them with diluted Sevin and it only makes mad.


As an American I'm growing tired of our ancestors being compared to the migrants of today.
Re: Yellow Jacket Bait [Re: Trapper7] #7911877
07/23/23 05:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Trapper7
I have sprayed them with diluted Sevin and it only makes mad.


The dust or powdered sevin works because they carry it on their legs into the nest and poisons all of them instead of the few that you sprayed.

Re: Yellow Jacket Bait [Re: Trapper7] #7911899
07/23/23 06:37 PM
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permethrin will kill them over time, just wet the hole every night after dark

Re: Yellow Jacket Bait [Re: Trapper7] #7911979
07/23/23 09:16 PM
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BvrRetriever you think like I do. I want to see the revenge!!!


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Re: Yellow Jacket Bait [Re: 160user] #7912025
07/23/23 11:05 PM
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Originally Posted by 160user
Originally Posted by Providence Farm
Caned chicken 10 oz 1/4 tsp of tarus sc mixed well.. put in wire cage so you don't kill anything unintentionally.



I tried this for the first time this year and I can't get the bald face hornets or yellowjackets to go anywhere near it.



My boys got lit up in the goat pen. The goats were also geting hit. Wife put it out because I was away working. I didn't see any when I was in the goat pen today.
I did see 2 when butchering chickens today.

Guys hers say it should take care of them for a larger area. I was not home to watch ans see then get the bait.
Plan o. Putting some more out in other places an dhope I get them before they get thick like they always do in August. Thay really like the sugar water then when I'm feeding my bees.

Re: Yellow Jacket Bait [Re: Trapper7] #7912026
07/23/23 11:11 PM
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A fellow at my hunting club would often mix Sevin and pancake syrup together on paper plates. Can’t say that it worked.

Re: Yellow Jacket Bait [Re: 160user] #7912068
07/24/23 05:08 AM
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Originally Posted by 160user
Originally Posted by Providence Farm
Caned chicken 10 oz 1/4 tsp of tarus sc mixed well.. put in wire cage so you don't kill anything unintentionally.



I tried this for the first time this year and I can't get the bald face hornets or yellowjackets to go anywhere near it.

First time I tried it I didn't see any yellow jackets near it but a few days later I never saw a yellow jacket for the rest of the year


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Re: Yellow Jacket Bait [Re: BigBlackBirds] #7912075
07/24/23 05:46 AM
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Originally Posted by BigBlackBirds
Just observation—. I don’t see many yellow jackets or wasps this time of year unless wander into nest. They don’t seem to be flying by house or buildings much or on hummingbird feeder. But in another 3-4 weeks I see them in huge numbers when I’m extracting honey. I’m speculating the nest sizes and population isn’t quite at peak yet and they aren’t in such the frenzied feeding. Id think the bsit stations work now if you are right on location by nest but probably not as good farther away you get. My mom always made the plastic bottle traps and hung them in august and she’d get huge numbers of them then

Very good stuff


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Re: Yellow Jacket Bait [Re: Trapper7] #7912115
07/24/23 07:47 AM
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We use orange pop in the trap and it works really good, can catch big numbers really fast. If you run traps in early spring the females are more active outside the hole and easy to catch, once you remove them your numbers will drop dramatically in following years.

Re: Yellow Jacket Bait [Re: Trapper7] #7912150
07/24/23 09:58 AM
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Originally Posted by charles
A fellow at my hunting club would often mix Sevin and pancake syrup together on paper plates. Can’t say that it worked.


Sounds like a good way to kill honey bees. Anything sweet will attract then. I would rather have the yellow jackets than kill off my hives. That's why I like the chicken. Bees aren't attracted to it like sweets.

Re: Yellow Jacket Bait [Re: Trapper7] #7912218
07/24/23 01:00 PM
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This morning I put canned chicken into the trap with Mountain Dew and set it next to the hole they've been going in and out of. They aren't interested in the least.
The hole is horizontal on the ground making it impossible to shoot wasp killer very far into it. I might have to try Sevin or permethrin in the entrance.
Someone suggested wait until dark and then with a garden hose fill the hole up with water to drown them.


As an American I'm growing tired of our ancestors being compared to the migrants of today.
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