Forget ants. Yellow jackets are much more likely to ruin your picnic, especially in late summer when they’re most hungry for sugary food. Here’s a simple wasp trap you can make yourself that will take the sting out of the little buggers’ visits.
1. Get yourself a 2-liter plastic soda bottle. You don’t even need to bother rinsing it out.
2. Cut the top third off the bottle. You should end up with an open wide-mouth piece and a shorter, funnel-like piece.
3. Tape or staple the top piece upside down into the base, so the funnel is pointing down into the container.
4. Fill the bottom of the yellow jacket trap with sugar water, sweet juice or other sweet liquid.
Now your wasp trap is ready to use! The yellow jackets will be attracted to the sugar and fly down into the trap. But it’s almost impossible for them to fly back out of the inverted funnel, and they fall into the liquid and drown.
(Sad, but don’t feel bad. By the end of the summer worker wasps’ days are numbered anyway.)
If you enjoy eating outside where yellow jackets tend to visit you can make a number of these traps and place them strategically near your picnic area. They’ll help keep the pesky little stingers down to a reasonable number.
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good idea now how to get rid of ants ????