Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Ok, my secrets are revealed. For those of you who say these traps do not work very well, you are correct. For those of you who say these traps are fantastic, and work wonderfully, you are also correct. I have been using these traps for the last 12 years. I currently own about 20 of them, and have had a total of about 30 in the last 12 years. Now you may think I am a little crazy in what I am saying, but on the contrary. If used correctly these work great, and sometime when used correctly they do not work at all. I have probably caught about 80,000 yellow jackets in the last 7 of those 12 years I have lived here. About 10,000 of those I caught with these Rescue yellow jacket traps. I have caught about 4000 Queens in that same amount of time. Each queen can lay from 1000- 10,000 young yellow jackets, so get the queens in early spring. For where I live I start catching Queens around the 1st or second week of May. Catch as many queens as you can. As of writing this on May 16, 2014, I have about 600 Yellow jacket Queens in my traps. I caught them all in the last 3 days. Strange thing is, in only about 4 out of the 20 traps I have hanging, have I caught most of them. I do not know why some of the traps work extremely well while others do not. Some of my traps only have 1 or 2 yellow jackets in them, while the one right next to it has well over 200 in it. (Almost completely full up to the cone opening). I have caught most of my yellow jackets through the years using water traps I have only caught about 100 queens this way, but later in the summer the worker bees go crazy over them and fill them up full about 1000 per container and you have to change and rinse them out every 3 days, because they get rotten with the yellow jackets in them and stink real bad so clean the water traps very often or you will stop catching them. Works best when real hot like 85 degrees or hotter. They need water and swarm to it. Do not put them even remotely close to your house, or you will be sorry if you do. They swarm these traps (make them by adding a few drops of dawn liquid dish soap in a 32 ounce Gatorade bottle/half gallon or gallon jug filled half way up with water and a few drops of the liquid Rescue attractant in the water after it is filled.) Set these water traps under your hanging Rescue yellow jacket traps, both the hanging traps and the water traps work best when used in combination together and when the outside Temperatures are above 75 degrees. (Leave half the bottle empty for room for them to fly inside, and the soap gets rid of the water tension and as soon as they touch the water they fall in and sink then drown. I do not catch them this way in temperatures less than 75 that very often. The hotter the better. Also if you have a warm day and catch some then the next few days are cool, ( say around 60 degrees ) then the yellow jacket survive in the hanging traps a lot longer and find a way to crawl out and escape out of the yellow Rescue traps. On hot days they die fairly quickly and do not usually get away. These reason some of you may think these do not work, may have partially to do with the outside temperature. The other reason about some traps working very well and other traps not so much, I have not been able to figure that one out yet. I have noticed though when one traps starts to get a bunch in it, it starts to catch a lot. Maybe the yellow jackets inside are sending out some kind of attack pheromone or something. The Rescue plastic bag trap works very well too, but remember temperature 75 and above. These only last a week or two before they get nasty from the dead yellow jackets and you need to empty them and make your own attractant to put them back up or you can throw them away. Any way I have had to throw away about 10 of these reusable Rescue traps because over the years I have dropped and broke them or my dogs have chewed them. They do last a long time if you take care of them. If you need to kill the yellow jackets in the trap, freezing the whole trap overnight works pretty well. Also these traps will not catch wasps, only yellow jackets. Where I live the paper wasps look a tiny bit different. You can see long hanging legs as they fly or if they have landed you can can see their wings sticking up like a V. The yellow jackets wings lay flat on their backs when they have landed, and do not have legs that dangle when flying. Yellow jackets can fly way faster than wasps, sometimes so fast, zigzagging back and forth, that it is hard to see what it is. Also the yellow jackets can be very aggressive and sometimes sting for no apparent reason. I find most of the Yellow jacket nests are in the ground around here, and the wasps make nests in my truck doors on my house eaves, in my home windows, and they seem to get in the house some how and in everywhere, but they are very docile (not aggressive, at least the ones we have are not, yours may be different). I can touch them with my fingers on their wings with out them even trying to fly away. I quite often knock their nests down with my bare fingers in an attempt to make them nest elsewhere, they swarm around me but do not attack. (I would never ever consider doing that to a yellow jacket nest) The wasps do have stingers, and can sting, but I have never seen anyone around me ever get stung by one. Wasps look very similar to yellow jackets, so close in fact, that most people that I know think they are yellow jackets. I do not know how to catch them with traps. We do not kill them even if they are in the house, I get them to crawl on a piece of paper then I let them go outside. I hope this review helps some of you. Good yellow jacket hunting.