Yellow Jackets in January ? !!! (Hot Springs, St. Regis: house, buy, shoppers)

[Rickers]

Holey schmolly I just had another yellow jacket come in on my fire wood that wasn't dead ! They must have antifreeze for blood because that last cold snap was well below zero. Some spring time birds are starting to show up already here in Hot Springs.

[Radek]

Originally Posted by rickers

Holey schmolly I just had another yellow jacket come in on my fire wood that wasn't dead ! They must have antifreeze for blood because that last cold snap was well below zero. Some spring time birds are starting to show up already here in Hot Springs.

Yes, they along with stinkbugs will not die due to being frozen.

[Rickers]

Last summer was really bad with more yellow-jackets than I've ever seen here. I take plastic soda bottles and cut the top off and I invert the top into the bottle and tape it in place. Then I put sugar water in the bottle about 1/4 way full and I place them in places where they bother me. These traps can really make a difference ! They seem to be attracted to power tools, saws and lawnmowers. I'm sure that if lawn weeds , wasps and grasshoppers ever became valuable I could make a fortune on my property !!

[Radek]

Originally Posted by rickers

Last summer was really bad with more yellow-jackets than I've ever seen here. I take plastic soda bottles and cut the top off and I invert the top into the bottle and tape it in place. Then I put sugar water in the bottle about 1/4 way full and I place them in places where they bother me. These traps can really make a difference ! They seem to be attracted to power tools, saws and lawnmowers. I'm sure that if lawn weeds , wasps and grasshoppers ever became valuable I could make a fortune on my property !!

Stinkbugs and napweed for us.

[brokencrayola]

One year we had a yellow jacket come in on a piece of wood and as it warmed up it began to move around and crawled onto my toddler sons play table where it stung him. We didn't know they could do that or that it was there. We have since seen more. As the warmth within the house warms them up they come back as if it were spring.

[jimj]

Originally Posted by rickers

Last summer was really bad with more yellow-jackets than I've ever seen here. I take plastic soda bottles and cut the top off and I invert the top into the bottle and tape it in place. Then I put sugar water in the bottle about 1/4 way full and I place them in places where they bother me. These traps can really make a difference ! They seem to be attracted to power tools, saws and lawnmowers. I'm sure that if lawn weeds , wasps and grasshoppers ever became valuable I could make a fortune on my property !!

Instead of sugar water try beer, I know a waste of beer that's better used to simmer Brats in but it seems to really draw them in...

[Rickers]

I use beer, soda, left over fruit juice etc. Those little devils aren't picky !
Don't get me started on Spotted Knapweed ! I have heard that someone got cancer on his hand from pulling Knapweed where it cut him a little bit. I Don't know if it's true though. I also heard that one year the grasshoppers were so bad that folks were sliding off the road in our valley. I guess they actually used a snow plow to scrape the slimy things off the road ! That also may be more of our towns gossip, A person just doesn't know what to believe or what not to believe from the gossip mill !
Those traps work but they also attracts them. I had those wasps building a big nest in my TV dish antenna.

[Radek]

Originally Posted by rickers

I use beer, soda, left over fruit juice etc. Those little devils aren't picky !
Don't get me started on Spotted Knapweed ! I have heard that someone got cancer on his hand from pulling Knapweed where it cut him a little bit. I Don't know if it's true though. I also heard that one year the grasshoppers were so bad that folks were sliding off the road in our valley. I guess they actually used a snow plow to scrape the slimy things off the road ! That also may be more of our towns gossip, A person just doesn't know what to believe or what not to believe from the gossip mill !
Those traps work but they also attracts them. I had those wasps building a big nest in my TV dish antenna.

God I hate knapweed. Hate it hate it hate it.

Apparently there are bugs now, that will actually completely eat the plants.

I doubt he got cancer, but never ever pull that stuff unless you're in a long sleeve shirt, pants and gloves. Otherwise you'll taste it for a week.

[jimj]

I can believe the plow thing, I think I heard that as well. I've driven from 93 towards hot springs to get to I90 and by the time I got there the front of my rig was painted with them suckers, took a 1/2 hour at St. Regis to clean 'em off....

[Rickers]

Someone should figure out how to make glue out of the grasshoppers.
Maybe NASA will buy it to stick those heat tiles on the shuttle with !