Wasp trap, very fast and easy
Wasps, wasps, wasps, all the trees in our gardens that are full of fruit. Our pear and nashi pear trees will be very fruitful again this year.
Unfortunately, the number of wasps has increased enormously, plunging on our not quite ripe fruits. We thought long and hard about what we can do.
By chance we were sent to a garden catalog with a wasp trap. This brought me the following idea:
You need
- 1 PET juice bottle
- 1 cutter knife
- 2 ropes, 50 cm long
- some juice
- 1 tsp vinegar
- 2 teaspoons sugar
- some water
This is how it's done
- Empty PET juice bottle, slightly above the half of the bottle, with a craft knife, cut 2 opposite circles, approximately 2 cm in diameter, open at the top. The same between these squiggles, but a little bit higher again.
- Make these cuts approximately 45 ° inwards (so that they are diagonally inwards at the bottom). If you have bent it too much inwards, take a wooden stick, for example, and bend it slightly downwards.
- As a filling I take some juice, half a cup (eg passion fruit), 3 teaspoons sugar, about 1 teaspoon vinegar and about half a cup of water. This is mixed well and filled in the cup.
- Screw the bottle and knot it under the closure and knot it, the second from the opposite side as well.
- Now hold all 4 ends at the top so that the bottle hangs straight down, knot them together and hang the bottle on a branch of the tree in question.
My 2 traps have been hanging for 3 days and are very successful.
I noticed that 1 bottle is not enough for 1 tree and the filling has to be renewed almost daily.
