How to make a trap for wasps from a plastic bottle
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Wasp trap helps get rid of annoying insects in the room, on the balcony, in the barn, in the yard, summer cottage. Uncomplicated, budgetary adaptation is quickly done, but brings significant benefits. Place the trap in any convenient place, independently choose fasteners.
Wasp trap from plastic bottle
The most common design of available tools. Make a trap for wasps at home can be a few minutes.
It will take:
- a bottle with a capacity of at least 1.5 liters from under lemonade, beer, kvass, mineral water;
- Scotch tape or stapler with staples, electrical tape;
- scissors;
- cord or screws.
The manufacturing process is extremely simple, does not require special skills.
- Cut the neck.
- Flip down the bottom, insert back into the bottle.
- Fix with scotch tape or staples.
- Cut through the holes on the sides, insert the lace so that you can hang. Or fasten screws in the selected location.
Wasp trap with your own hands ready. It remains only to put the bait on the bottom.
On a note!
A bottle of more than 2 liters will be the best container for the manufacture of structures. Wasps give signals to each other about finding food. In a few minutes, almost the entire swarm will fly. During the day several dozen individuals gather in a bottle.
Periodically, the trap should be emptied, pour a new bait, so it is more convenient to fix the neck with adhesive tape, tape. It is easy to tear, stick in place a new tape.
The principle of operation is simple.The wasp flies on the aroma of the bait, crawls into the neck, feasts enough, trying to get out. However, a transparent bottle prevents the insect from navigating, to find a way out. The wasp either crawls up the wall or takes off, but remains inside.
Simple, effective trap trap
If there is no time or desire to build a construction for insects, you can make a trap for wasps at home in a matter of minutes. The principle of operation is to lure insects, make them sneak into a trap. Water is poured into the container, covered with a film with holes, put in the right place. The best option is a glass jar from 0.5 l to 3 l.
Do not wash out a jar of jam, pour half of it with water, cover with foil, make holes. The wasps will fly to the scent, they will begin to make their way to the food through the holes, they will immediately drown.
You can not cover the container with nothing, but add a little detergent or liquid soap to the water. Effective bait - Coca-Cola, sugar, water, beer. You can just leave a little at the bottom of the bottle a drink, cut off the neck, lubricate the walls with petroleum jelly or vegetable oil.
Used for the manufacture of traps jar with a screw cap.The bait is poured inside, holes are being made in the lid. A photo of a wasp trap is shown below.
The right bait
To lure an insect into a trap, it needs to be attracted by the scent. Bait for wasps can be sweet, sour, liquid, solid. Adults feed on plant juices, liquid, honey, but for their larvae they extract protein foods. Sugar and meat will be equally effective.
The bait for wasps with his own hands is very simple. You need to select the ingredients, put in a trap. Periodically update. To attract insects use:
- Apple juice;
- honey;
- jam;
- lemonade;
- kvass;
- beer;
- Coca Cola;
- crushed grapes, other berries;
- lemon juice;
- sugar, syrup;
- apple, wine, table vinegar with sugar;
- compote;
- pieces of ripe fruit;
- meat;
- a fish.
It is recommended to use meat bait to catch wasps in spring, early summer. In the end of April uterus looking for a place for nest structures, and also finds food for the larvae. If it can be caught, there will be no wasp swarm on the plot. In other cases, the larvae simply remain without food. To keep the bait from drying out, add a little water to the bottom of the bottle.Catch wasps will help pork, beef, chicken for these purposes is not suitable. It is not necessary to use a fresh product at all, foul meat attracts insects even more.
On a note!
Self-made trap for wasps is often placed on the apiary around the perimeter of the site or near the hive. To prevent the bees from falling into the trap, the bait is poured inside, which is of no interest to them. Bees are indifferent to braga, beer, fish, meat. Pouring sweets, juices, throwing pieces of fruit is not recommended.
Sticky trap for wasps
If the wasp family settled near the house, in the wall, outbuildings, periodically fly into the house, you can catch them with the help of adhesive tape for flies. Hanged on the windows, near the door.
In the apiary, in the garden, in the yard using a homemade sticky trap for wasps. You can make it in 5 minutes. For the manufacture you will need a base - a piece of plywood, oilcloth, plastic, wood or other durable material that can be applied with glue.
Buy a special non-drying glue, which is caught at home of cockroaches, in the garden of ants. Suitable remedy is Clean House, Alt, Raptra. Apply to the surface with a minimum distance between the strips.About 120 g of glue is used to make one trap. The finished structure is hung on a tree, wall, any suitable place.
On a note!
The main disadvantage is that not only wasps, but also other insects can be trapped. In rainy weather the trap quickly loses properties.
Poison trap
If you do not have time to prepare the structure, but you need to get rid of wasps, you can use any fruit, poison. The easiest way to destroy annoying insects. Watermelon, melon, grapes, ripe apple, fragrant pear are suitable as bait. Cut in half so that insects can easily access the juice.
The poison is used without smell, so as not to scare away the pests. Any dust, powder - boric acid, Pure house, as well as liquid products Lambda Zone, Delta Zone is suitable. It remains only to choose a suitable place, leave the bait. Photos of such a trap can be seen below.
If catching pests does not save the situation, you need to start searching for a nest on the land, give and get rid of it.