ASPECTEK Pumpkin-Shaped Wasp Trap Outdoor Hanging – Reusable Non-Toxic Hornet and Carpenter Bee Catcher, Yellow Jacket and Bee Trap for Outside, Decorative Insect Control, 2 Pack

This is working well so far. Structurally, it works perfectly. I can only assume that people complaining about it not working must have hung it up without preparing bait, and were upset that the wasps weren't magically compelled to fly into an empty plastic container for no reason and die. Each trap has three pieces: the yellow body, the white screw-on top, and the string attached to the top for hanging. The instructions discuss how to prepare a bait concoction to add to the bottom. It doesn't come with any bait or parts of bait. Thus, I had to do the best with the household stuff I had. I didn't have any sugar or fruit juice at the time, so mixed (in each) two shots of water, a shot of vinegar, a dash of pancake syrup, a little pineapple juice (I had to split of one pineapple tidbit can's worth of juice into four traps), and a shot of wheat beer. If I used sugar and actual fruit juice, I'm sure it would have made a more tempting brew. I'll be prepared with the right ingredients next time. Using the measurements the instructions recommend end up making enough fluid to fill up the bottom of the trap all the way up to the edge of the bottom-most wasp-hole, so I had to be careful when hanging (i.e. securing the string, then screwing the traps onto the suspended tops) to avoid sloshing any of the mix onto me. During the first day, I didn't see much action. I expected that after the mix fermented in the sun for a while that the stuff would become more noxious and attractive to the wasps. A couple of days later, I took a look, and there are lots of dead wasps and flies. It definitely works. I guess when they get too full/gross, I'll pull them down, dump the mess, and refill them with a more proper mixture, and then they'll perform even better. Good traps. *Edit* (Later). Lots of dead and dying wasps. Great product. See my pictures. *Edit * (Much later) The white strings the traps come with sucks, and will quickly get brittle in the sun and break. Replaced all strings with paracord, and the traps are still working great.

Lousy design (understatement) Very little space for liquid at the bottom due to the lower set of insect openings. Due to the small amount of liquid these will hold, coupled to a very wide surface for the liquid to evaporate from, plus so many openings and vents, you'll have to refill these every few days during hot weather. Long narrower liquid traps with only top openings are good for 2 or 3 weeks between refills. These weigh so little that they swing pretty far in even a mild breeze, the fat body acts as a sail. Some the liquid pours out when they swing due to the low openings, which makes the frequent need to refill even worse. You have to pre-mix the liquid bait and then pour it in, and then carry it CAREFULLY to where it will be hung so it doesn't spill. With other traps you add the bait ingredients directly into the trap (Water, sugar, fruit juice...) and then just swirl it around to mix Once the bottom fills with wasps to the level of the lower openings (only about 3 wasps deep) the new wasps can probably(?) stand on the dead ones and walk back out the openings. The way it narrows near the top, plus all the openings protruding from the sides means it will be very difficult to empty what's been trapped. Cheaply made (another understatement) Thin brittle plastic, already had stress cracks when I opened the package. The lids don't screw on very far, the body hangs from the lid, Likely to come unscrewed by itself in the wind and drop to the ground and break. Mind did not leak right away like many reviewers have noted, but both did start to do so after just a few days hanging outside. They claim it is for indoors too... sure, if you want sugar water soaking into whatever surface you place it over. The low price I paid for a 2 pack does not come close to offsetting the above noted deficiencies.

For all those claiming these catch everything. Of course they will if you use a universal attractant like honey or sugar water. If you just want to catch hornets and yellow jackets use a piece of meat. Fish probably works best. This isn't hard folks. I purchased these to catch everything including bees because some inconsiderate neighbor thinks it's a good idea to keep bees in a dense suburban neighborhood. Our city website says this is the number one complaint along with dogs. Change the law city council! Duh!. Before I get a know-nothing lecture about killing bees, wild bees are in no way threatened. It is the human monocultures that attract disease and predators. "Hive collapse" that makes the national news every six months largely refers to commercial operations. When it gets to the point that my grandchildren can't go out in my own backyard without being stung I am going to take action. How to use these if you have the same problem: I highly recommend regular Mountain Dew for lure. Fill the trap right up to the bottom of the lower cones. This way the hornets, YJ and bees will be able to drink the lure and will eventually climb in. It is important to keep the liquid level at this level or your catch rate will drop dramatically. In my opinion and experimentation these traps can be improved by reducing the number of vent holes. This large number of vent holes cause two problems. The first one is the target insects spend so much time trying to feed in the small vent holes that they leave in frustration. The second problem is evaporation. The trap cones are more than sufficient to provide wafting scent without being wasteful or overly attractive. Use a little tube of Silicone to plug the small vent holes. Allow to cure before filling with lure. Honey bee behavior: If you are like me and have a nuisance source in your neighborhood it is not necessary to kill a lot of bees. Honey bees are very social animals and communicate locations of food sources and water to each other in the hive. If you place these traps at the border of your yard they will intercept and kill the few scouts that are finding your yard attractive and prevent them from communicating with the rest of the hive. This breaks the communications chain that has led to the infestation of your yard.

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.

These traps work. That is the most important thing, and if it was the only thing, I'd give them 5 stars. They are designed such that they hold only a small amount of fluid, so they require frequent refilling and in hot weather the liquid evaporates quickly. Because of these negatives, I probably should give them 3 stars, but I am just so glad they attract yellow jackets, and they actually die and cannot sting people. I am using them on a horse farm where the yellow jackets nest in pasture gates, around fence posts, and are a nuisance and a danger. (I can think of a redesign that would not interfere with effectiveness, but no one asked me.) Oh, and I agree you need a better cord to hang them with. But I still give high marks because they are simple and effective. I got a couple of these last year and threw them out at the end of the season because they had, through my neglect, gotten dried out with many dead yellow jackets, and I was too lazy to clean them out. This year I ordered more and they are working. If I am good, I will clean them in the fall and reuse them next year. Update: I ordered 3 packs of 2 traps. Half of them leak as soon as you fill them the first time. That's bad. Very bad. Changing my review from 4 stars, to 3.

I bought my first two in July 2017, and played with a mixture that's settled on this: 2 oz water, 1.5 oz distilled vinegar, 3 tsp brown sugar, and approx. 9 oz fruit juice. In 2017, with another year of near infestation of red wasps, my success was modest but promising. Starting in March (2018) I hung four of these around the house and the first week trapped nearly a hundred red wasps. This is now the end of July, and while the per dose count (each time I put fresh ingredients into a trap) of trapped wasps and yellow jackets is far lower than that first week, my count to date is well over 300 red wasps and even more yellow jackets. My use of poisons has plummeted, and the population of these insects has gone from dangerous (I started this campaign after being stung over a dozen times in less than two weeks, and was no where near the nests) to manageable. These are plastic and the sun does degrade them. I have two of my original traps--both that broke I dropped--and have bought four more. I find I have to add water to the mix in these hot days, and when a group in the trap don't fall in and drown in a day or so, I spray soapy water into the traps to help smother them quicker. My distaste in harming any creature has been overwhelmed by the danger posed by the skyrocketing populations around my house the last five years, and how they've gone from standoffish to very aggressive. With about 600 wasps/yellow jackets trapped in four months and they're still plentiful, I'm not sure what's going on except our once rural area has more houses (protected places for nests) than ever before, and their aggressiveness might be a result of greater territoriality due to their increased numbers. The end result is I'm able to control the populations around us without using poisons that are decreasingly effective anyway. I added nicer looking glass traps this year, but almost no red wasps have gone into those, and a much smaller number of yellow jackets, by such a large margin these gold colored traps are solid gold effective.

Let me be very clear from the get-go that this trap's effectiveness with wasps is NOT the reason I don't like it. I bought a 2-pack because big, hateful wasps were driving our wrens from their nest boxes and hummingbirds from their feeders, and that's not a problem any more, at least partly due to this trap. I've only put out one, and it's done the job I bought it for. But it works TOO well. I knew when I got it that it would attract more than just the rat-bastard wasps that wouldn't leave our birds alone, but I wasn't prepared for the unbelievable number and variety of small bees it caught. There are MANY more of their carcasses inside the trap than there are wasps, and these bees are beneficial, non-aggressive pollinators that I am sad to have murdered. In addition, it's a damn good thing that most butterflies can't fit through the holes, because they apparently find the recommended attractant mixture just as enticing as the bees and wasps. Several butterflies have been crawling around the outside of the trap, trying to get inside. A few small moths have found their way in, but only a very few. I really wish there were a way to only attract the hateful, bird-frightening wasps, but that's obviously not feasible with this type of trap. Second, the first trap leaked All. Over. My. Deck. It started leaking before I even hung it up. At first I thought I was just sloshing it around too much, but it continued to leak over the next 24 hours or so until there was no liquid left inside. Thanks to some rain, most of the puddle is gone now, but it was a sticky mess for a while. Doesn't seem to have affected the trap's efficiency, though; I guess the dead bee bodies are soaked well enough with the attractant to keep 'em coming. It's actually pretty nasty to look at now. I'll be taking it down soon so it can go into next week's trash; I obviously can't reuse a leaky trap, even if I wanted to, and I feel both grossed out and sad every time I look at it. Maybe in future, making the bottom part of the trap opaque would be a really good idea. I don't know whether I'll ever use the second one. I guess it depends on whether significantly more wasps return to pester our birds, but it would take a pretty big infestation for me to risk killing so many non-aggressive species this way again. In addition to these traps, I purchased a fake wasp nest (also sold on Amazon) to hang in the same general area, and I'm hoping it does the job of scaring away the wasps so I don't have to murder any more beneficial insects. Bottom line: I would only recommend this type of trap to people who are desperate to get rid of hateful, aggressive wasps, and only if other methods, like fake nests, don't work first. In my case, I'm not sure the end result was worth the cost to the environment, particularly considering the ongoing decline in pollinating species. PS: Deal Republic contacted me and offered a 15% refund on this 2-pack if I would write a review. I don't know if they will actually read it, but I've been honest about the trap itself and how I feel about it. I hope they can use the information to improve their product.

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.