Is there a trap for mud wasps?
Question:Help, I have a pond in my backyard and I cannot enjoy it because mud wasps have taken it over. They are not from my yard so I cannot destroy the nest, and I do not know exactly where they are coming from. There are yellowjacket traps but what would be a good for mud wasps? I wish I could sit out with a can of spray but it will kill my Koi.
Answers:
We have them in our yard, too, and they are constantly drinking from our pond. I haven't found a way to get rid of them *completely*, but have found that those florescent yellow wasp traps that you bait with fermented juice, hot dog bits, and/or wasp pheromones DO catch at least some of them. The traps are available in home improvement stores like Home Depot and Lowes, as are the replacement baits. As I recall, they don't seem to be too expensive, either.
We hung the traps near the "flight zone" - the highway that the wasps seem to take most often between our pond, where they land on lily leaves to drink, and wherever their various nests are. However, we made sure that the traps were a good 8-10 feet away from the pond itself, and hung a little lower. It seems like those dirt daubers don't fly quite as high as yellowjackets do, but that might just be my perception and not scientific fact.
Over the years, we have sort of made peace with the idea that our pond will attract wildlife - both the kind we like, like birds, and the kind we don't like, like wasps. We just try to stay out of the wasps' way, and I like to think they try to stay out of ours, too.
Hope this helps.
my only suggestion is to talk to your neighbor about removing the nest (if you know where it is). That is a bummer.
I truly, truly hope one of these can help...
http://www.pestproducts.com/wasps.htm...
http://www.ecy.wa.gov/pubs/97427.pdf...
GOOD LUCK!
i have never seen a trap for "dirt daubers". I think they pretty much live on a diet of spiders. I usually only see the black kind. I don't know if they sting, but they don't seem very aggressive.
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