How To Quickly Trap 1,000 YellowJackets In Just Hours. Mousetrap Monday

today for mousetrap Monday we are going to deal with some pests but this is not my usual rodent trap review video as you can see flying by there are so many Yellow Jacket Hornets these are really aggressive and in this video I'm gonna dig up a nest and then show you the best ways to trap these now these are so plentiful I'm scared to have my kids go outside they're really aggressive and they will sting they're not like the usual honey bee they can sting multiple times without dying I found a nest behind my house these things typically live underground in a big paper nest they use an old bull or mouse hole and they're protected underground but with this shovel I'm gonna dig it up show you what the problem is then we're gonna test out some traps I'll show you how to build a really great homemade trap we get a lot of Yellowjackets in this video to start with though I'm gonna use the bee spray spray the hole then start digging it up even though it's really hot outside I'm gonna be wearing thick clothes a hoodie glasses gloves man as you can see these are everywhere and we're going to completely destroy this nest so the first thing I'm going to do is cover up zip up my hoodie spray the hole and then start digging so let's dig up the Yellow Jacket nest now here's the opening to the hornet's nest the first thing I'm gonna do is spray B spray down there then we're going to start digging it up the holes right there and they can come out now we're getting close they're really aggressive here's what's left of this underground yellowjacket nest I pretty much destroyed it but you can see all the larvae this is the next generation and they require a lot of food so all the adult Yellowjackets go out and look for meat and that's a huge weakness the Yellowjackets want meat so bad that they're easy to trap so not everyone's going to want to dig up a yellowjacket nest I did get stung right there where the glove meets the sleeve is pretty dangerous luckily I'm not allergic but there are easier ways to deal with Yellowjackets if you can't find and destroy the nest the next best option is to trap the Yellowjackets this can be very effective at reducing numbers I have two commercially available traps here and this one is a homemade trap we're going to set these up side-by-side and see which one catches more Yellowjackets this one's made by pick pest free living it's their Yellow Jacket and wasp trap this one's called why it stands for wasps hornets and Yellowjackets and this one's a simple trap you can make out items you have around the house so let's get these set up we'll start with the pig trap we'll take it out of the box here's what the pig trap looks like they're eager to get in this has six holes for the Yellowjackets to climb in and get caught the top comes off like this now you fill the bottom with sugar water juice and meat that's how you bait it and you just hang it for the Yellowjackets to get caught here's the white wrap it comes with attractant gel has a funnel on top and bottom we'll see how many get caught in there and now we'll set up our homemade trap this is so easy all you need is a container that will hold water this can be a bowl a bucket or here I'm using a tote on top of the trap you'll need a board I got fancy with this one and cut some grooves on the table saw but I got them a little thin so it might break you don't have to get this fancy anything that will hold the bait will work for bait we're gonna use pieces of a chicken carcass the bees really love this meat they'll go after it I'm gonna attach the chicken carcass with some screws then we'll flip it over and finish the trap the Yellowjackets really want to get the bait they go in here they go upside down and grab a big load of meat they're very greedy and usually when they take off they drop a few inches so we're gonna add water just an inch below the bait that way when they take off they'll drop in the water so let's go fill this up before our bait is gone the last time really important part of this trap is to add some liquid dish soap that acts as a surfactant it makes them so they can't swim on the water and they die more quickly the Yellowjackets are everywhere and they really want this bait we already have several in here and they're already dropping in the bucket let's let this stay here a little while and see how many we get [Music] it's been three hours since we set up these traps and we have some really good results let's go ahead and count and see what the final numbers are here's the final results I counted out each individual yellowjacket and in just a few hours with the white wrap we caught 76 and with the pig trap we caught 111 I think we caught more in this trap because we use chicken as bait and right now the Yellowjackets are really focused on me in this trap we use the liquid that was provided as bait I think we would have caught more with chicken both store-bought traps worked well and I think they're good options for long-term maintenance but if you need to reduce the population in a hurry make a homemade trap with a container liquid dish up some water some meat and a board in our homemade trap we caught 790 Yellowjackets that can really reduce numbers in a hurry especially if you set up several traps if you're new to my channel I usually post videos on how to catch rodents I post between 4 and 5 row and trap videos a week so if you want to see how to catch mice rats squirrels chipmunks moles voles Gophers and occasionally Yellowjackets stay tuned you

Channel: Shawn Woods

Views: 7,581,697

Rating: 4.8747997 out of 5

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Id: 7FhifTGKtUQ

Length: 6min 32sec (392 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 08 2018

Reddit Comments

[u/SyntheticGod8]

When he kept picking them up and poking at them at the end... fuck no. STOP.

[u/iaehd]

TIL: yellow jackets eat meat.

[u/BigBearBeer]

After a minute I though, "I hope I don't go down a YouTube hole on these videos, like with the mouse trap videos." End of the video- same guy.

[u/systemghost]

Pretty useful and informative. I make traps out of plastic bottles but have been curious about the best thing to use as bait. Will try the chicken.

Though it made me weirdly uncomfortable to see him picking up handfulls of dead yellow jackets.

[u/esPhys]

Lets get this food that's surrounded by the corpses of hundreds of my co-workers

Wasps*, apparently

* Thanks, mr.Bee-PR-rep

[u/ShakurasEnder]

Does it have to be exactly 1000?

[u/ThrivesOnDownvotes]

Yellow jackets are the bad muthafuckas of the North American wasp family, and I don't say that because I like or admire them. I don't. I hate them.

There are a few different types of yellow jackets and they are all pretty bad. Even though they are technically wasps, the longer legged paper wasps that you see building little nests under the roofline of your house are not yellow jackets even though they look alike. Paper wasps can sting but they generally leave people alone. There are fewer to a nest so even if you set off their territorial defense instinct there will only be a few after you.

True yellow jackets typically build their colony underground or just above ground attached to low lying objects. They are extremely territorial when they are growing their colony in spring and the first part of summer. They get even meaner and more territorial in late summer and fall as they seek out dwindling food sources. Because there can be hundreds to thousands per colony if you happen to trigger their defense instincts they will swarm you and dive bomb you rapidly. To make matters worse they will mark you with a pheromone so that all of their colony mates know exactly who to attack. And unlike bees they can sting over and over again without dying.

Sometimes you can trap them but sometimes they are not interested in the kind of food that is typically used as yellow jacket bait. When they ignore your bait they are either busy growing their colony and nurturing offspring or they have found a really specific food source are are ignoring every other food source until the preferred food source is gone. Just keep baiting your yellow jacket traps with a few different things and wait until you find something they want. Then go after them. And if you find their underground nest and feel it is too close for comfort, especially if you have small children, then feel free to destroy or poison it. Yellow jackets are aggressive bastards and we don't need them near our homes. There are millions of them out in the wilderness already, the species will be fine.

[u/whalemingo]

Is no one going to mention the fact that this YouTube channel is destined to fail? He never once told us to Like, mash that Subscribe button, and ring the Bell so we can get notified whenever he uploads new content, which should hopefully be a couple of times a week, now that he’s got his channel back up and going.

How can he expect to compete without treating us like children?

[u/ophello]

STOP TOUCHING THEM EWWWW