Wasp trap?

They're harmless -- no stings in two years of working around them -- but The Fair Elizabeth has a whim of iron, so the bees must go.

Is there a practical trap to thin the numbers without an all-out pesticide attack?

Thanks,

Rod

But the time to stop them is now, before the queens pop out lots of babies.

We used to have wasp nests under our eaves every year. Then I sprayed Diazinon under the eaves one time. No more nests until we painted the house several years later & covered up the Diazonon. Of course, since it worked, they outlawed Diazinon. Don't know what would work now. Any insecticide that is hazardous to bees should work. Any beekeepers want to give us some help here?

Regarding yellow jackets, if your temps are getting over about 75 these days, get your yellow jacket traps out now, catch the queens & you will see a lot fewer yellow jackets in August.

*The rodents are plundering an eight-acre plantation I tried to establish last fall, so I have been stuck doing the Elmer Fudd routine since spring thaw.

The plants, if they survive, will be on a 20' grid, so a dog should be able to patrol until the crowns start to spread. Last summer a pair of great horned owls lived nearby and kept the squirrels inside the woodlot canopy, but the blacks and reds picked every walnut in the woods without leaving the trees. Nothing but discarded hulls got to the ground. I was able to pick enough seed off the ground for the project, but I found most of them in the open fields over twenty-five feet from the hulls of the trees. Squirrels seemed to figure nuts that far from the tree were too expensive with the owls around.

This project covers about eight acres and is a demostration plot for the International Plowing Match in September, 2007 at Crosby, Ontario. We'll be bringing visitors on horse-drawn wagons through the woodlot, into the fields where the walnuts, butternuts, and other plantings will be, and then back through another trail to the tented village to the west.

No pestacides..

Soundguy

I'll try tomorrow.