@danzeb
Now I am curious, why do you want to attract yellow jackets ?
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Apple juice with borax will kill yellow jackets. They are a problem for the grand kids so I want to keep the numbers low. Canât find the nest. Too many honey bees drinking this year so I wonât use the mix unless some vinegar will keep the honey bees away from the mix. Iâll try that today. In past year Coke attracted the yellow jackets but they arenât interested in it this year.
I noticed the yellow jackets taking away cat food today but that would only work in a trap off the ground to keep cats from eating it.
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@danzeb
I would suggest using a meat based trap.
Sugary / sweet / fruity liquids will attract honey bees which you donât want to kill.
Meat , the honey bees wonât go near. But yellow jackets will.
So selective.
Try one like this board over soapy water with meat. Will have to keep cat out with a cage ? Or it may get a bath, no harm done .
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Iâve used the meat over soapy water in the past and it did work for me but it is not convenient as I would like. Since the honey bees are preventing me from using the apple juice this year, maybe Iâll setup the soapy water/meat.
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I regularly get yellow jackets in my vinegar fruit fly traps, never honeybees.
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Yellowjackets go for meat/protein/carbohydrates early in the season⌠Later they are more attracted to sugars. This is usually about the time of year we start seeing them on hummingbird feeders.
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Same here at my house. The yellowjackets start to swarm around my hummingbird feeders in August. Also I always remember seeing them at County fairs in August and September around anything sweet, usually the trash cans where people throw away their sweet drinks and parts of the candy apples and cotton candy.
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These scream âpest!â based on sheer numbers, but can anyone confirm an ID? They are on a sunflower.
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Im on LI too - yellow jacks are awful here this year. I had 2 nests to take out on property - never had one before now. My neighbor got stung up bc he ran over a ground nest of them.
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Did an image search and looks like the brown marmorated stink bug (or some other closely related stink bug that I wouldnât want in my yard):
~SQUISH~
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Oh no, they are stink bug eggs and babies. They did damage to my fruits
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None of this brood will cause anyone harm. They are D-E-D, dead. But Iâll be on the lookout for other hatchings.
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The little white markings on stinkbug nymph antennae are never a good sign â key ID feature for BMSB.
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Not a big concern but curious.
Had over 3 inches of rain after weeks of no rain. Noticed my Cot-n-Candy Aprium has a few leaves with edges turning brown.
Some plants show over watering with yellow leaves. Do fruit trees look different?
PS. In the last photo it looks like I MAY have some flower buds set.
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I found so many suicidal moths floating on fermenting kitchen waste water. Are these good moths or bad moths to my fruit trees? Would you identify for me @LarryGene please. Thanks
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There is enough info there for an ID, I will do that when I have time.
I have found that my no-lid vinegar traps collect a variety of larger insects, including moths.
Your mothâs larvae are most likely a pest. This particular species may have nothing to do with fruit trees.
Your moths are neither an oriental fruit moth nor a codling moth.
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Your moth is the Common Idia, Idia aemula.
You canât ask for a better pest moth as the larvae eat dead leaves and fungus (detrivores).
No harm to fruiting plants.
https://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/species.php?hodges=8323
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Larry, thanks for id it for me. Good to know they are not fruit eating moths. I found Itâs easy just to leave some fruits in water to let them ferment to catch moths, and wasps sometimes.
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Is this black rot on my neptune grapes? First year theyâve had any fruit and are they still ok to eat? Also, if it is, is immunox the solution next year?
Second question. Is this sooty spot? Most apples have these lesions that only affect the skin. They still taste great. This is a jonafree apple.
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