How to make a wasp trap from a plastic bottle

A wasp trap helps get rid of annoying insects indoors, on the balcony, in the barn, in the yard, cottage. Uncomplicated, budgetary adaptation is quickly done, but brings significant benefits. Place the trap in any convenient place, choose the fasteners yourself.

Plastic Bottle Wasp Trap

The most common design from improvised means. Make a trap for wasps at home in a few minutes.

You will need:

• a bottle with a capacity of at least 1.5 liters from under lemonade, beer, kvass, mineral water;
• adhesive tape or stapler with brackets, electrical tape;
• scissors;
• lace or screws.

The manufacturing process is extremely simple, does not require special skills.

1. Cut off the neck.
2. Flip down, insert back into the bottle.
3. Secure with tape or staples.
4. Cut holes on the sides, insert the lace so that you can hang. Or fasten with screws in the selected place.

Do-it-yourself wasp trap ready. It remains only to put the bait to the bottom.

On a note!

A bottle with a volume of more than 2 liters will be the optimal container for the manufacture of the structure. Wasps give signals to each other about finding food. After a few minutes, almost the entire swarm will fly off. Several dozens of individuals gather in a bottle per day.

Periodically, you should empty the trap, fill in a new bait, therefore it is more convenient to fix the neck with duct tape, with adhesive tape. It is easy to tear it off, stick a new tape in place.

The principle of operation is simple. The wasp flies to the aroma of the bait, crawls into the neck, feasts plenty, tries to get out. However, a transparent bottle prevents the insect from orienting and finding a way out. The wasp either creeps up the wall or takes off, but remains inside.

Simple Effective Trap

If there is no time or desire to build a structure for insects, you can make a trap for wasps at home in a matter of minutes. The principle of action is to lure insects, to make their way into the 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 liter to 3 liter.

Do not wash the jam jar, half fill with water, cover with foil, make holes. Wasps flock to the aroma, begin to make their way to food through the holes, immediately drown.

You can not cover the container with anything, but add a little detergent or liquid soap to the water. Effective bait - Coca-Cola, sugar, water, beer. You can just leave a little drink at the bottom of the bottle, cut off the neck, grease the walls with petroleum jelly or vegetable oil.

A jar with a twisting lid is used to make a trap. Bait is poured inside, holes are made in the lid. A photo of the wasp trap is shown below.

Right bait

To lure an insect into a trap, it must be attracted by aroma. Wasp bait can be sweet, sour, liquid, solid. Adult individuals feed on plant juices, liquid, honey, but they produce protein food for their larvae. Sugar and meat will be equally effective.

Do-it-yourself bait for wasps is very simple.You need to choose the ingredients, put in a trap. Update periodically. 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;
• slices of ripe fruit;
• meat;
• fish.

Using meat bait to catch wasps is recommended in spring, early summer. In the end of April uterus looking for a place to nest constructions, and also searches for food for larvae. If she can be caught, there will be no aspen swarm on the site. In other cases, the larvae simply remain without food. To prevent the bait from drying out, add a little water to the bottom of the bottle. Pork, beef, chicken will help to catch wasps for these purposes is not suitable. It is not necessary to use a fresh product, rotten meat attracts insects even more.

On a note!

A homemade trap for wasps is often placed in an apiary along the perimeter of the site or near the hive. So that the bees do not fall into the trap, they pour in the bait, 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 wasp trap

If the hornet family settled near the house, in the wall, outbuildings, periodically fly into the house, you can catch them using masking tape for flies. Hang on the windows, near the door.

In the apiary, in the garden, in the yard use a homemade sticky trap for wasps. You can make it in 5 minutes. For manufacturing, you need a base - a piece of plywood, oilcloth, plastic, wood or other durable material on which you can apply glue.

They buy special non-drying glue used to catch cockroach houses in the garden of ants. Suitable remedy - Clean House, Alt, RaTrap. Apply to the surface with a minimum distance between the strips. The production of one trap takes about 120 g of glue. The finished structure is suspended on a tree, wall, any suitable place.

On a note!

The main drawback - not only wasps, but other insects can fall into the trap. In rainy weather, the trap quickly loses its properties.

Poison trap

If there is no time to prepare the design, but you need to get rid of wasps, you can use any fruit, poison. The easiest way to destroy annoying insects. As a bait, watermelon, melon, grapes, a ripe apple, a fragrant pear are suitable. 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 is suitable, powder is boric acid, Clean House, as well as liquid products Lambda Zone, Delta Zone. It remains only to choose a suitable place, leave the bait. A photo 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, cottage and get rid of him.