Unlike honeybees (Apis mellifera), who over-winter as an
entire colony containing thousands of individual bees, yellow jacket wasps
(Vespula vulgaris, Vespula germanica) do not over-winter in a colony. It is only the mated yellow jacket queen who
survives to establish a new colony of these nasty insects.
The queen hibernates in a protected location
to emerge in the spring to start a new nest site. Yellow jacket wasps have historically nested
within the walls of the old pump house until I began hanging this trap.
Baited with a pheromone attractant this has
been a very successful method of capturing and drowning the mated queens before she is able to start
laying eggs for the season.
Death to the queen.
Monday, May 7, 2018
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