Drowning a bee

[KallieLashay]

Apparently you cant drown a yellow jacket although I did try. The reason being is that I was watering my plants and it was an accident and then I decided to keep drowning the fella because I didnt want to get stung (yea I know what your thinking ). But anyways, he's alive and hopefully he will pollinate my peas.

But you can't drown a pee...

 

[latebloomer]

Yellow jackets are predators to other insects. Any pollination they do is mostly by accident.

 

[Randy]

I have drowned a lot of yellow jackets but not with a garden hose. I set a bucket on the ground with a little dishwasher detergent in some water in it and hang a piece of bacon or wiener on a string close to the water's surface. The yellow jackets will eat the meat and they will swoop a little when they take off to fly. The detergent reduces the surface tension of the water and the yellow jackets will sink to the bottom instead of float on top.

 

[Crabbergirl]

Beer works too. We are fostering a beee hive for my neighbor ( a mile away) as he starts a new hive. Yellow jackets will invade and kill a honey bee hive . They make a trap for yellow jackets for bee keepers. They first time I noticed yellow jackets at the bee hive there were no joke 1000. They had covered the hive and the pour honey bees we trying to defend their hive, So I statred smashing the yellow jackets. If you leave a beer bottle with about 1/2 the beer in it they will go to the beer instead of the honey. We had a quart bottle that was about 1/2 full of yellow jackets. I didn't want to kill them but we needed to protact the hive. About a week later the hive owner come over with a trap but we still use the beer bottle too. The nibmber of invaders ha dropped so I imagine there was a nest of yellow jackets close by and we have caught most of them up.

 

[Randy]

I'll have to try that, Crabber. We sure have plenty of them around here.