Wasp traps

[Sodie]

After a not so fun day out at Longleat last Sunday because of the amount of wasps I'm just wondering what people think of wasp traps. The place was crawling in wasps, I've never seen so many. I have a huge phobia of them and it impacted the day massively. We didn't see a single wasp trap compared to our local farm/zoo park which has the bags up everywhere and therefore has no wasp problem. I'm guessing longleat see it as inhumane to trap wasps, just wondering what other's think of traps?

Wasps are important, they are pest control and pollinators. I wouldn’t use a wasp trap. I have a severe spider phobia but I’m not happy to mindlessly kill them.

www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/what-do-wasps-do.html

Get used to them... wasps love dry hot weather and there will be far more as we go into late summer.

Advice is not to kill them, unless they are in or on your home, they do a great deal of good, especially in eating rotting matter - had a fungal infection on a few plums, the wasps have removed them all, saving me a job with a hi ladder, they are also happy eating the fruit, i can pick the good ones without being stung.

I've used two in my garden that I got from Amazon. They were like wasp graveyards and I loved them.
You have to make this mixture with jam and stuff in it, the wasps fly in but not out.
I don't care what they do for nature

There was an absolute plague of them at a BiL’s place in France a few years ago. We usually eat outside but it was impossible, they were everywhere.

We hung a lot of large water bottles with holes in, in the trees - a mix of apricot jam and water inside. Caught hundreds of the pestilential buggers with no regrets whatsoever.

The odd few wouldn’t bother me, but this was like a biblical plague.

The problem with wasp traps is that they attract wasps. And not just the ones there anyway; wasps will come from miles away.

The main reason theme parks are swarming in wasps is the amount of sugary crap that people eat / drink and the litter they leave lying around.

You will when there are less pollinators, less fruit and less jam...

The current weather shows what happens when we fuck with nature.
Wear some Citronella spray/candle.