ASPECTEK Wasp Trap Pumpkin Design - Pack of 2, Outdoor Hanging, Reusable Yellow Jacket and Hornet Catcher, Attractant for Flies and Carpenter Bees, Safe Patio, Backyard, Garden and Orchard Solution

I've put them in my greenhouse, where I have a huge seasonal problem (just now ramping up) with swarming wasps and their nests. The traps immediately started capturing most of the wasps (and some flies), leaving just a few easily avoided ones that will presumably eventually be caught. I used the recommended bait recipe, with no mods at all. Great stuff! I suspect I'll put more of these in other places on the property, though I don't have anywhere near the same wasp problem outside the greenhouse. It was so easy to catch them that I actually felt somewhat sorry for the wasps. Update: After a couple of weeks, the traps were full enough with wasps that I decide to pull them down and hang up some new ones I had purchased in the meantime. Of course, that's terrific! But not all is rosy. First, and most important, one of the newly-purchased traps leaks. The two halves of the trap are improperly sealed together, so there is a constant drip-drip-drip of bait fluid from one place on the bottom. No good! Out of 6 traps I've purchased overall, 5 are good, and 1 has a leak. So make sure you test your traps before filling them with the bait fluid, since otherwise you may find yourself with a messy puddle of sugary bait fluid. (I've not attempted to return the defective trap, since I've already used the companion trap it came with, so I have no idea whether having it replaced would be a smooth experience or not.) Speaking of bait fluid, the manufacturer's recipe for it is in terms of "shot glasses". It may be a shock, I know, but not everybody actually has shot glasses sitting around. I certainly did not. So here's the recipe written in terms of ounces, if you happen to have a kitchen scale that measures in ounces: 3 ounces water 1.5 ounces fruit juice (apple works well) 1.5 ounces vinegar (cider vinegar works well) 2 ounces sugar Another difficulty which had not occurred to me in advance is that the wasps can actually survive in the trap for quite a long time (several days), even after they have fallen into the fluid. They crawl around on the inner walls of the traps for a long time, then fall into the fluid and swim around in there. Therefore, when you eventually have to reopen the traps to dump out the bodies and replace the fluid, some wasps may still be alive! I don't yet have any advice to offer you as to how to dump a trap while live (and possibly angry) wasps remain in it.

Can't really say there is anything about this that's redeemable. First, the incredibly cheap and inexact production--low-quality plastic that is soft and poorly molded, so the "lids" BARELY fit; there are no threads whatsoever, so lids that appear to be meant to screw on, do not. Second and most important, IT DOESN'T WORK. Baited as instructed (plus added some meat for wasps that are still hunting proteins), and caught ZERO yellowjackets in 4-days. I'll update if this changes but there's no reason to think it will. Stay away from this garbage and stick with the easy and proven DIY methods out there.

It’s ok. At first didn’t get anything, but played with the “ recipe “ I followed the instructions and didn’t catch much, so I added other ingredients. I used wheat beer, apple cider and sugar water. I think I get best results with hard cider, sugar, and jam smeared under the lid. When I first smeared the jam, I caught a ton of nasty earwigs. I am now getting wasps fairly regularly. This is in an area by my fountain which was attracting a ton of wasps, coming to drink out of my fountain. I couldn’t stand there and enjoy the area. The traps after a week has now really diminished them. So overall I’m pleased. I check the traps a lot and dump and clean every couple of days. There are some downsides however: Traps don’t leak BUT be careful when filling and transporting and hanging, as liquid will spill out the holes. On a windy day an overfilled trap will also spill out the holes. The trap is made of thin plastic, don’t drop on a hard surface, I bet it will break. CONS: The WORST part is the lid jams EASILY. Very frustrating to get lid off to clean. I attribute that to it being sticky from liquid and jelly. I have to spill liquid out of the holes and run under water with all the dead bugs inside. YUCK. PROS: They are very attractive traps. Love the the little pumpkin design. They are definitely catching wasps, which is the whole idea.

TL:DR: The trap works great, but replace the bait (that you have to make) every two weeks. My 5 year old got stung, the wife lost it and activated dad mode. We determined we had wasps on the side of our house, so I bought every wasp trap I could find on Amazon. This one won out, but there are some caveats. 1) you have to make your own bait, and the recipe comes on a piece of paper (that I already lost). If I recall correctly, it was a mixture of wheat beer, cider vinegar, lime juice, and perhaps some sugar. It basically functions as a larger version of the cider vinegar traps you use on fruit flies. I did have a few yellow jackets fly out, but so did the rest of the traps I bought. I put the trap out in July and started catching yellow jackets the next day. A week later I had a satisfactory amount in there, but they kept coming so I just left it out. Now towards the end of August, the bait has reduced to a syrup and I decided to buy another set than get all intimate with the cleaning that would be required to rebait the trap. This could be easily mitigated if you followed the instructions which want you to replace the bait every 2 weeks. The neighbor and I each had a pest company come out (again dad mode got activated) and they determined we didn't have a nest, so the trap was the best we could do. Bottom line, the trap caught a ton of yellow jackets and wasps, zero honeybees and we don't have yellow jackets visibly hanging around anymore, and if I were a more responsible trapper I'd have replaced the bait a few times by now and had a good as new trap to show for it. My loss is hopefully your gain. Best of luck.

I purchased four of these wasp traps, and used the apple juice, sugar, etc as bait per instructions. I hung them in trees about 10 above ground level. Within a day, the traps were full of wasps, and even more wasps were buzzing around trying to get in for the sweet liquid. After the sunset I went to clean and refill the traps. Taking the orange body off of the green top proved to be quite difficult, even though originally they fit together easily. Imagine standing on a ladder with wasps around trying take these plastic balls apart - no easy! Eventually I had to get a pair of pliers to hold the small tab on the top of the green portion and twist the large orange ball to separate the two pieces. After all four of these were apart, I tried to rinse them out and to get rid of the dead wasps. However, there were so many and they were so stuck together that I could not get them all out, or even a large portion of them. I refilled and again had difficulty putting the two pieces back together again. The next day I looked and the balls were not only full of dead wasps, but unfortunately there were 100s of bees caught in the traps and buzzing around - more bees than wasps. Again, taking them apart was problematic. And more difficult to clean. I had to give up on them because of the difficulty with assembly and disassembly, and the fact that that they trapped and killed hundreds of bees. Bees are valuable pollinators and should not be trapped this way. If you care about the bees, please do not use these traps. But if you use them, I hope you have better luck than I did with the two parts. I have given up on them, and have trashed them for these two reasons. The items are fairly cheaply made, but I guess you get what you pay for.

We hung one of these inside of our mud room which we use as a main entrance to our home on September 7th with the lure suggestion that came with the trap (2 shots water, 1 shot vineger, 1 shot juice, 2-4 tablespoons of sugar) and immediately saw outstanding effectiveness. After about 3 weeks we added another batch of lure because it didn't seem there was as much liquid now that it had been filling with wasp corpses. We've used apple juice the first time, then fruit punch (only filled it twice so far), and have always used apple cider vinegar. After another 3 weeks, I've decided to document the amount of wasps caught and created this review prior to again filling the trap with lure (orange juice this time). The scent of the lure is of vinegar, as expected, and was subjectively not repulsive until I was emptying the corpses during this video. This was the most cost effective option relative to other wasp traps, and I cannot imagine another more expensive trap being any more effective. I cannot say whether this would be sturdy enough to withstand being thrown around by wind, but would suggest avoiding any turbulence because the liquid would dump, and the plastic is rigid enough that it would likely crack or snap easily. We have no wind in our mud room, so it's not a worry for us. This was easy to use and install (cordage included), definitely recommend.

One of my traps is up and caught one wasp in the past 3 days. I watched one wasp get in and escape. The second trap leaked at the seams immediately after filling it and is unusable. Amazon is replacing the product for me, and I'll update as to whether or not the second batch leaks too. Overall not impressed!

This is amazing! Where I live early fall we have a major problem with yellow jackets every year. I have paid for pest control to spray my house, because they were burrowing holes through my brick exterior in previous years. As well as wasp spray you can buy at the store, those options never fully worked and I hate using pesticides. This year I was fed up and saw these in an amusement park in my city and decided to give them a try! I didn’t catch much with the recipe in the instructions, and I recalled the amusement park had them near the soda machines. I figured that they must have been using soda in their traps. So I made my own recipe with an ounce of apple juice and an ounce of Dr. Pepper in each trap. After 4 days of them sitting out; the bottom is full of dead yellow jackets in both traps. Now rather than hoards of yellow jackets flying around my porch and deck, I have just a few here and there. These traps are so good I bought some for my elderly neighbor who is having the same problem. I’ll never use anything else now. These are saving me tons of money as now I don’t have to pay the exterminator to spray my house multiple times!

Bin begeistert hab 4 Stück gekauft und jetzt gibt's bei uns fasst keine Wespen mehr 👍was gut ist sind nur Wespen reingeflogen 👍

Me ha encantado casi desde el principio, solo atrapaba 3 o 4 avispas y alguna mosca, pero cambie el producto señuelo y ahora se llenan enseguida. Solo hay que dar con el producto que las llame la atención. El vinagre de manzana NO HACE NADA. Pero fruta madura, un poco de zumo de frutas y poquito de agua las vuelve locas y no paran de entrar. Así a mi me dejan tranquila en mi jacuzzi. Un trozo de carne también las anima a entrar, solo vi salir a una y fue por ser muy pequeña y salió por arriba. YO CONTENTISIMA CON LA COMPRA, le regalé un par a una vecina y esta muy satisfecha también con el resultado.

très efficace avec du sirop de canne

They are excellent at catching the wasps. They arrived quickly, were easy to assemble and although one of the tops was difficult to screw on, they performed brilliantly. Good value for money.

Carine esteticamente, ma non ho catturato una sola vespa (altri insetti sì). La chiusura/apertura è abbastanza scomoda.