They're Yellowjackets and they are a fact of life from midsummer until frost At my office from now until cold weather, I will get several daily communications concerning what to do about these "bees" that are stinging me, my family, and my family pets. County fairs representatives and village street fairs directors will ask how to eliminate "bees" from their outdoor events. I've been called by an international .jelly producer in our community to review how they could keep these pests our of their multi-million dollar production facility. Then there was the chewing gum factory in Chicago with Yellowjackets around their dumpsters. It doesn't matter if the caller is a large business or a homeowner, the recommendations are similar, During late Summer, Iwill frequently hear, "Boy! Those ground-nesting bees are really bad this year!" Every year, I will scurry to the literature to see if anything new has been developed. I will still see many of the nonsensical recommendations like the "fish trap" that ispresented in an Ohio State fact sheet. This procedure instructs the caller to hang a smelly fish over a bucket of soapy water. In a perfect world, greedy Yellowjackets will take more fish than they can carry and drop into the soapy water where they will drown. Clever idea and, yes, the procedure far from boring, but I really doubt that it cuts down the resident Yellowjacket population very much.
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