homemade bee traps .. how to?

Question

what is the best and easiest way to make a bee trap and what do use ?

Answer 1

The easiest way to trap bees it to call your local bee keeper. Bee are on a serious decline right now and most bee keepers would be more help in order to keep the bee from being harmed. Whatever you decide to do just remember that without bees we are in a world of hurt, literally.

Answer 2

Homemade Bee Traps

Answer 3

The easiest and cheapest way to make a bee trap that I have seen is to take a used plastic soda pop bottle and cut off the top 1/3 of the bottle. Now set the bottom part of the bottle on a surface with the open end at the top, and flip over the top part of the bottle that you cut off so that the neck of the bottle is at the bottom. Now just set the top of the bottle inside the base of the bottle. The narrowest part of the neck should now be inside the base, about halfway down.

Pour a little bit of a sweet beverage inside the bottle as bait, such as soda pop, fruit juice, etc.

The bees and other flying insects, like wasps and hornets, can climb down the neck into the base, but it's very difficult for them to fly out again.

I found a couple of pictures of what I was trying to describe. The diagrams are on page 2. http://www.watchtv.net/~honeyrun/nwoba/January%202005.pdf

Answer 4

I'd use a 2 liter pop bottle. Carve the center out of the cap and glue small pieces of wood to the outside of the cap that stick up about an inch. Take the bottom from another 2 liter bottle and glue it to the wood. This will give you a cap with a large "umbrella" over it. Fill the bottle with sugar water and place somewhere away from the areas of the yard that you use. Honey bees are becoming scarce and usually aren't agressive unless you bother them, so I suspect that you might be trying to rid your yard of yellow jackets. If you're trying to catch yellow jackets, put some raw "aged" hamburger in the bottle.

Based on the fly traps we used on the farm when I was growing up.