So, wasp season has begun around here, and after spying a wasps nest beginning to form, we decided to kill it off. While at the store we found this trap called the W.H.Y. trap that advertises that it catches wasps, hornets, and yellow jackets, made by Rescue. We decided to give it a try.
My room mate set it up while I was at work and had me hang it after I got home, in the place it was at, wasps periodically flew by, which made it seem like a good place. It is in the shade, as recommended by the instructions, and should last two weeks.
Two weeks was up yesterday, and up to that point, not a single wasp had been caught. however, after work one kind of wasp did manage to get caught on the lower part of the trap. This was no small wasp, not sure if it was a yellow jacket or something else, but it had yellow, black, and orange stripes, and it was huge, probably a full inch in length, assuming the curving plastic didn’t cause a magnifying lense kind of effect.
The reason I bring up the size is that up to now, it had ‘caught’ fruit flies, which are small enough to fly in and out at will. This was a full sized wasp not some tiny little thing. Well, we watched it that day and found that it managed to get from in the plastic cup down through the cone that supposedly is a one way hole by it’s shape down into the lower cone, where more one way holes were situated.
We were nervous at first of course, wondering if it might figure out how to get out. it climbed back out of the cone after a bit and we thought our worries were over. This morning however i had went out to check the trap, and found that the wasp was gone! i looked around the nest to see if i just couldn’t see it, but no luck, my room mate also came out to examine it and tried thumping the trap and no buzzing sound or wasp could be seen or heard.
Apparently, this wasp trap was not wasp proof. I’m planning to call the place and see about if I can get a refund, weather I can or not, I will post once I find out. I imagine this trap would work a lot better if it had something like a fly strip down the middle of the lower cup, so the wasp would have something to get trapped on rather than simply waiting to see if it can figure out how to leave before starving to death.