RESCUE! WHY Trap for Wasps, Hornets, & Yellowjackets – Hanging Outdoor Trap

The media could not be loaded. Updated September 16, 2020.The Rescue WHY trap is still performing well. I use unfiltered apple juice, high sugar soda pop, sugar melted in warm water or old honey mixed with water in the upper compartment. The liquid that Rescue provides for the upper liquid compartment of the WHY trap is not very effective.I do use the liquid attractant in small yellow packet AND lunch meat above cone. Or better yet some canned cat food pate wrapped in a small part of a paper towel soaked with any liquids above. Use disposable gloves and prepare this in kitchen with hood fans on because it stinks and if you prepare this outside yellowjackets will be all over you before you finish preparing. I just bought two more today! It is us against the yellowjackets. I have not gotten wasps consistently. Those have to be sprayed at their nests. Good luck and you know your mission should you decide to accept it!!2018 review: We have had over 4 months of extended hot weather for Portland Oregon area so the conditions are ripe for a large yellowjacket population and this is the worst year I've seen in 18 years I have lived here. I also have many wasps but I have not mastered how to catch wasps yet. We have a 6 acre farm with 200 fruit trees and hundreds of berry plants as well as grapes.I have four Rescue WHY traps and about 7-8 old style Rescue yellowjacket traps. Both of the pictures above were hung on a tree about 3-4' off the ground. You dont want to put them too high because the yellowjacket scouts skimming above the ground might not smell the bait.Inside all traps are a bait bag with low quality inexpensive raw beef on sale as well as canned catfood (I think its Friskies Grill mate). I put on disposable yellow gloves and make these bait bags in the kitchen under the hood fan above the range with the fans on high because catfood is stinky.The picture of the WHY trap has the attractant provided by Rescue in the lower section and apple juice in the upper section. The picture of the old style has only the catfood/steak bait bag described above because I ran out of the attractant. Catfood alone is very effective and I would guess there are about 300 bees in the old style and maybe 500-500 bees in the WHY trap--both were set 48 hours ago!The new WHY trap is higher quality than the original Rescue style yellowjacket trap. It has thicker plastic, larger compartments and the half liquid and half bee attractant is quite versatile. In the top compartment, I have tried apple cider or Coors Beer. It looks like the Coors beer has more bees but that is a different location so that is not scientific data that proves beer is better. It is a lot cheaper than apple juice/cider.I have also made homemade yellow jacket traps because I like to work with my hands and its a lot cheaper. With homemade ones I use gallon size or half gallon clear juice bottles. You can use plastic gallons for liquid laundry detergent or vinegar but I like to see through them and see how many are accumulating and what bait or style is performing better. With the homemade ones, i like to use black rotten bananas that we save in the spring and freeze them on traps cut in thirds with skin. Add maybe a couple tablespoons of sugar, 1/2 cup of vinegar and water. Then dangle these bait bags from the top just slightly above the liquid. I drill holes the same size as the Rescue traps in the cap. Use monofilament or that new thin braided spectra line so the bees cannot crawl up a string or twine and escape.I realize this is a lot of information and most people wont be willing to do what we have done but yellowjackets wiped out our honey bee families so I've declared war on the yellowjackets. And its kind of fun. In the last week or so I've got maybe 10,000 yellowjackets in 12 Rescue yellowjacket traps. Eight were old style and 4 are new WHY traps. One more thing, the liquid attractant provided in the WHY traps was not effective, it killed about 8 bees. I cannot tell if the bees in the top compartment are wasps or yellowjackets but at first glance it looks like mostly yellows with some flies and really large black bees with a little yellow. An occasional black bumble bee and no honey bees go inside any of these traps from Rescue or homemade.Good luck to you all and I will post some photos in a couple days of homemade traps. Oh, one more thing (as Lt. Columbo used to say), I have about 50 homemade traps with the recipe above and they usually get 2,000 each by October 1st. Last thing, really this time, make sure you wash out the trap and cone each time you empty the dead bees and rebait. I don't wash the lower screw on cap that holds the attractant because i think that smell is still good to attract bees.I hope this helps you.

I carefully followed all of the instructions exactly. The wasps weren’t even remotely interested in this device at all. I have caught about 100 knats but I wasn’t trying to trap those. There was another product that worked absolutely amazing on out Carpenter Bee, Wasps and Yellow Jackets and that was the Rescue TRAPSTICK (i didn’t put the bird guard on because people say they don’t work with the bird guard on). All of the pests are completely gone now in our yard and it is very comfortable and relaxing now. It was an absolute nightmare before. The Carpenter Bees would fight, land on you (while fighting and stinging each other; anyone who has been stung before can attest to how frightening this is) bore holes in all the wood fencing and house, general nuisance. I have never used anything to get rid of carpenter bees before but I can tell you that I will use the other product for as long as I own my house.HOWEVER, this product did absolutely nothing at all. I really would not recommend this to anyone when the other one literally trapped around 40-50 carpenter bees and all of the red paper wasps and all of the yellow jackets. And a bunch of flies as well. Truly TRAPSTICKS worked a miracle for my backyard.

We just built a house in the woods, and couldn't sit long on our new deck or patio without being hassled by bees & wasps. I bought several traps, and maintained them as instructed from spring through fall. My results:Rescue WHYTR-BB8 W-H-Y Trap For Wasps, Hornets and Yellow Jackets was hands-down the best, never failing to catch at least a dozen wasps, hornets and yellow jackets per week. The refills (Sterling Intl. WHYTA-DB12 Wasp, Hornet & Yellow Jacket Trap) contain 3 different lures and last 2-3 weeks (tip: refill once the liquid lure has evaporated). This trap worked best when hung on the trunk of a smaller tree, where it was head-high and mostly shaded, and at the edge of the woods. It was much less effective hanging from the deck railing. It caught several kinds of bugs that are identified as wasps on the package (mostly ones that look like big yellow jackets), but like all of the traps I tried, it caught none of the all-brown, long-winged, skinny things I think of as "wasps."The yellow-jacket-only version of the W-H-Y trap, Rescue YJTR-SF4 Reuseable Yellowjacket Trap with Attractant, similarly caught at least a dozen each week, but there were several types (presumably wasps & hornets) that I would find in the W-H-Y trap and not in this one. Biggest advantage: the yellow jacket lure (Rescue YJTC-SF9 Yellow Jacket Attractant Cartridge) is larger than the one used in the W-H-Y trap, and lasts at least 10 weeks rather than 2-3.The cheapo Trademark Beehive Wasp Trap, Yellow surprisingly did next best, although it was not nearly as effective as the Rescue traps. Using sugar water or fruit punch with a squirt of dish soap (to lessen the surface tension, so bugs drown easier) as the lure, and hung on a tree along the wood line, this trap typically caught a few yellow jackets (?) per week (and on occasion, a bunch of beetles).The best-looking traps, Springstar GWT1 Glass Wasp Trap (which came with a Springstar Wasp & Yellow Jacket Lure) and Garden Delight Wasp Trap (which came with no lure), were, alas, mostly useless, whether used with a Springstar/OakStump lure or the punch/soap mixture described above. I had these on the patio and fence, and tried locations sitting in the shade and hanging in the sun, including a spot that is 20' from a very active yellow jacket nest. I only caught two yellow jackets in these traps all year, along with a bunch of moths and assorted other bugs. I assume they would have been more effective out at the edge of the woods, but I got these traps because they were nice enough to have out where I could see them. They are a bit more trouble to clean & refill than any of the other traps mentioned. I didn't have any problem with the coloring running or coming off, even after several months of fully-exposed weathering & bi-weekly cleaning with a hose sprayer-nozzle.I hung Firemaster 00900 Beee Free Natural Wasp Deterrent 2-pack under eaves on two sides of the house, but it's hard to say how well they worked. (These are fake nests made of thin paper like Chinese lanterns, and are supposed to fool wasps into avoiding an area because a nest is already there.) On one side, where I'd previously sprayed two paper wasp nests with Raid Wasp and Hornet Killer, 14 oz. can, we got no more wasps. On the other side, I hung the fake nest above the 1st floor patio; the 2nd floor porch above it still has wasps living between the decking.Next year, I'll stick to an assortment of the Rescue traps (hung out of sight) and lures, along with the Raid spray (which was 100% effective).NB: None of the traps caught any of the (many!) bumblebees that are here. The Rescue traps/lures also claim that they will not trap beneficial honeybees (which I don't have here, AFAIK).