Aspectek Wasp Trap – Wasp Catcher, Bee Trap, Yellow Jacket
Aspectek Wasp Trap – Wasp Catcher, Bee Trap, Yellow Jacket Traps, Fruit Fly Trap, Hornet Trap, Indoor, Outdoor, Hourglass-Shaped
| Dimensions: | 12.95 x 12.95 x 15.49 cm; 317.51 g |
| Model: | ASPECTEK 2-Pack Gourd-Shaped Hornet Trap |
| Part: | Wasp Trap |
| Manufacture: | Aspectek |
| Dimensions: | 12.95 x 12.95 x 15.49 cm; 317.51 g |
Also this won’t attract honey bees or bumble bees so is very friendly to the beneficial bugs
Had a real problem this year with wasps close to and nesting at the house . Also eating all the fruit on the plum trees.
Put them up today with the sugared solution as suggested and within a few minutes first wasp entered. Had read other reviews and so used a bit of tape to block the very small hole it’s below the string ..perfect ! No bees have entered, just wasps and a few large flies!! Hanging in the fruit trees are working brilliantly and hopefully I will save more fruit for us!
Firstly yes wasps do get out of the hole in the top- a bit of tape over the hole will stop that.
Secondly put them AWAY from your house and places people will be using. I put mine up on the house wall for a kids party. They worked PERFECTLY- there were NO wasps on the kids food and drink. But one trap got knocked and spilled down the wall, and every wasp in the neighborhood is now in my garden. These really do *attract* wasps so they need to go where you want to attract the wasps to! And where they won’t get knocked or spilled.
I’d also recommend emptying at night after wasps have returned to their nests, and have some spray or something handy because not all the wasps inside will drown. They fill up seriously quickly in August, people aren’t exaggerating when they talk about a hundred or more wasps!
I don’t have any bees in mine despite having a bumblebee nest in the garden- I expect the sheer number of wasps was a deterrent!
We attracted a lot of wasps using the advised concoction, and many wasps have been lured to their doom. However there are a few who work out that there’s a small hole in the lid at the top and have made their escape. See picture – you can see a cheeky one peeping out and just after, he made it out.
Was a bit sceptical about these but ordered 2 not realizing they came as 2 in a box. I put 2 up and within a few hours each one had over 15 wasps so put the other 2 up and they all had over 20 wasps in such a short space of time. I used white wine, sugar and maple syrup and these sweet tooth menaces all came along and got wasted! Even got a hornet! So these things really do work plus no wasps in the house! Hung them around the doors and patio, a great buy.
We have a nest somewhere, can’t find it but the garden is plagued with wasps, hundreds of them. I bought 2 packs (4 traps) and in the space of 2 hours they’ve caught 30 wasps. I followed the recommended recipe for the bait which is simple and seems to be working. So basically they do exactly what they are meant to and do it well. Seems like quite a bit to pay for a piece of plastic however it’s much easier and I expect more effective than building your own.
One thing i would say is when you come to re-use them, i just filled with a bit of fresh orange juice. Once that starts to fester, it is WAY more successful than the mix you are provided with when new.
We have a wasps nest somewhere near my garden table which makes sitting and eating outside a hazard. We cannot locate it to eradicate it. I needed to get rid of as many wasps as possible in that area. I have a glass trap which gets some wasps but these are amazing. The recipe for the mixture to put inside attracts loads of wasps. However the shape of the trap is important. There are small holes which allow the scent to permeate around and lots of wasps are attracted to it, but no bees. I put the same mixture in the glass trap and have far fewer wasps. These are fantastic. I get about 20 to 30 wasps in each trap a day.
I follow the advice of other reviewers and leave the trap in a bucket of water for a while to make sure the wasps are dead before emptying it. That works well. I am having to clear the trap once a day at present but I hope eventually the wasp population in this area will decline.
These traps are very well designed and work really well. Once the wasp is in it cannot escape, I know this from regularly watching the trap. I have tried the glass bell shaped traps with the hole in the bottom before but more often than not the wasps can and do drop out of them. The bait recommend with these traps is also very effective. I emptied these out once a week and regularly had over 100 wasps per trap through the summer. I did catch 1 bee but I had scrimped on the vinegar. To make cleaning them out easier I used a hose, this proved a mistake as the trap is made in two parts, stuck together, hence I have weakened it somewhat. I found it best to fill it with water from a watering can in the end and tip out, any live wasps were then a bit stunned and easily finished of and hosed down a drain. I highly recommend this product. I only used it later in the season when wasps started to bother us and hopefully the useful part of their life was close to an end.
I bought these to see if they would help stop flies coming into the house when the back door was open. Reading some of the reviews and seeing the photos, for the price I thought I’d give it a go.
They arrived promptly and I was initially impressed by the design (there aren’t just holes for the insects to crawl into – but little tunnels, and smaller holes to allow the scent of the mixture to entice the pests, but not big enough for them to get in or out by. I was also a little worried about bees getting caught in these (we like our bees).
I hadn’t seen any wasps recently, but within 24 hours there were two in the trap and a host of pesky large and small flies. Bees
were watched flying past without the slightest interest, despite it’s bright orange colour – so that was a real positive.
The mixture recipes included seem to work a treat.
For a little over 10, these two traps are a great purchase whether you want them for al fresco dining, or just to keep some flies away from your house.
As others have mentioned – take care when emptying the trap!
After making my own mixture of beer, sugar and vinegar I then dispensed it carefully into each trap at about 10am today. After returning at about 3pm I found the traps had been VERY successful. The solution at the bottom was crammed full of dead and dying wasps and flies, with more wasps trying desperately to evade a sticky, booze laden death. I carefully removed the traps and dunked them in a deep bucket of water to make sure everything was very dead BEFORE removing the lids. I then emptied them out and counted at least 100 dead wasps, twice as many flies (including horse flies!!). Very pleased with the results. I have now hung them back up (8.30pm) and the wasps are still coming!
Thoughts: the traps probably lure more wasps into the area than would probably be present but, nonetheless, the results are amazing.
One tip though, try not to spill the solution on yourself or the area you’re tying your traps up into. And, of course, be very careful emptying them. Somebody else has already said that it’s not a good idea, if you’re using them to keep wasps away from an outdoor seating/dining area, to have them in the immediate vicinity – keep them 10 metres away. Don’t worry – the wasps will smell it from a good distance away.
So based on the generally positive reviews here I decided to buy these traps, load them with the recommended mixture and hang them in my garden well away from my conservatory and home windows.
That was 2 weeks ago, and to date I have trapped 2 wasps, 4 flies and roughly 30 bees! Fortunately, I managed to release the bees before suffering a watery grave. But all the same this is not what I was expecting or hoping for. And what I noticed even more was when the solution started to dry out in the May sunshine, to form a sticky “goo” at the bottom of the traps, it just attracted more and more bees!
I have decided, therefore, to take them down and re-position elsewhere in my garden to see if that will attract the wasps and flies once and for all.
With that in mind I wasn’t sure what kind of rating to give here. Both traps arrived in good time, and with no damage. The instructions were generally okay, especially the mixture recipe – which does work – and they are an effective deterrent: the only problem is that it is attracting the wrong kind of critter!
Perhaps I will get lucky by the relocation. But at present the traps do work, just not for me (or the bees!)
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UPDATED 14th August 2017
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Well just over 2 months since writing this review, I have to say that I am now hugely impressed with these traps! I relocated them to another part of my garden, and I have to say they have both been very effective trapping and killing both flies and wasps in their dozens! Regrettably a couple of bees suffered as well, but certainly not in the same volume compared to my experiences back in June.
And what I have noticed is that the longer you keep the mix in the traps, the more attractive it becomes to wasps and flies! Plus, the dead flies and wasps within the traps act as a further magnet for more of the same, to the point where there must have been at least 50 or 60 dead insects in each vessel before I eventually had the messy & sticky task of cleaning them out and resetting for the next round.
So if you find your traps are not doing anything for the first couple of weeks, don’t change anything! Let the mix “mature” over time, and it will eventually attract the critters in their droves.
Have up-rated my score from 2 stars to 4.
Extremely effective; they have dispatched hundreds of wasps in my back garden attracting the horrid striped assassins to their sweet, sticky doom! I bought a two pack of the traps and have hung them about 2 metres apart at the far end of the garden, as far away as possible from where we are. This has left the rest of our property more or less wasp free. No instructions came with the traps for the bait so I used my own mixture. I used a few blobs of raspberry jam in the bottom and filled up to the bottom holes with fizzy orange. This seems to be an irresistible lure that has, since I set the traps around 30 minutes ago, already caught 15 to 20 wasps in each trap. I found the simplest way to empty the traps when full was to do it early morning when it is cooler, before there are too many wasps around. I submerged each of them in a bucket of water and left them there for around 20 minutes to be sure all of the wasps inside were dead. Once done it was simply a matter of emptying the traps and resetting them with bait. These traps do exactly what I need them to and I would recommend them to anyone, they have kept the wasps away from me and my family and that can only be a good thing.