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Beekeeping => General Beekeeping => Topic started by: Marty68 on January 15, 2014, 09:11:08 pm
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is there something special that i need to use to keep wasp away from my hives, and if so what do i need to use.
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Find the nest and knock it down at night, step on it!
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Get a ""One horned, one eyed, flying purple "wasp" eater"". :laugh:
Don't ask me where, my supplier is sold out. :laugh:
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I've never known wasps to bother bees. They may pick up the dead and dieing.
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Three years now, and i get paper wasps in my eaves, all's I've seen wasps do is pick up the dead bees on the ground.
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you sure there not yellow jackets
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Year before last I had a problem with Bald Faced Hornets. They would swoop down and do snatch and grabs off the landing board. I saw one actually enter the hive. A short time later, a dead hornet was carried out by several honeybees and I saw a hand full of dead hornets on the ground. The honeybees would try to fly them away from the hive but weren’t able to get far.
I built a couple homemade traps and hung them in the trees away from the hive.
2 liter plastic soda bottle
Drill a 1 inch hole just below the slope on the neck
Add: 1 cup water, 1 cup sugar, 1 half cup vinegar, 1 banana peel
The best time to do this is in the spring when the hornet queens are out and about, starting new nests. Kill the new queens and eliminate the problem before it starts. This trap also works for the wax moth.
Another option that works very well for yellow jackets and hornets ……take a can of cat food or tuna fish and mix in a couple drops of flea/tick treatment. The hornets/yellow jackets will carry this home and the whole nest will die off. Just make double sure other animals can't get to it in any way. Honeybees don't eat meat and are not attracted to it.
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I've had both yellow jackets and regular paper nest wasps hang around and kill bees, though yellow jackets are the bigger problem. May be because a yellow jacket nest can have hundreds of individuals in it, while a big wasp nest will only have a few dozen. A big hornet nest can have a pretty strong population too. A lot of folks don't differentiate between different kinds of wasps including some beekeepers, just referring to everything as "hornets" or "yellow jackets"
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ok i said it wrong. yes it is yellow jackets. but i have seen some black ones as well. not sure what those are.
but what is the best way to get rid of them.
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ty for the tips. one of these days i will get the right question out of my mouth. glad you guys are here to keep me on my toes.
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marty, what's going on?
also, the 'black ones" are probably bald faced hornets, but these are larger than yellow jackets.
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just trying to say it right the first time is all riverbee. sometimes i can't get the right words out. still new at this and trying to make things easier for everyone if i ask the right thing the first time
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Bah... I been screwin up what i wanted to say for years!!! Everyone needs someone new to harass so stop worrying about it!!! ;D
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well marty, never worry or be concerned about getting the right words out the first time around, i certainly ramble on and have no idea if folks are tracking me..... :D
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Np guys. I won't worry to much about it then