Wasp Catcher

We bought one of these to help reduce the number of wasps buzzing about our plum trees. Using cheap jam diluted in water it works really well and I have just ordered another two, can't fault it.

I purchased 2 wasp traps before reading the reviews so after reading all the negative comments I was absolutely convinced that they wouldnt work and dismissed them as a complete waste of money before they even arrived and started to look elsewhere for an alternative. They arrived back end of last week. I just put them to one side. Sunday we had a barbeque and out came the wasps to torture us. I thought I would give the already doomed traps an airing. I used the wasp attractant that I bought with the traps; laced it with a bit of honey and some J2O that a wasp had already dive bomed into. I hung them up and waited. It became more interesting than the barbeque. One by one they went in and only one flew back out while I was watching. Up to today there are about 20 dead wasps floating in each trap. I placed them near a bright orange flowering plant that I have which I think helped to entice them. So this Doubting Thomas is well pleased with her purchase. Thank you Lakeland.

I have a house that seems to attract wasps, and there is usually a wasp nest under the eaves somewhere. I bought the Wasp Catchers in 2006, so this is their 4th season in use; I have 3 of them hanging on a garden wall near to my patio area. My husband empties the Catchers every spring - he digs a hole & tips out the Catcher contents, so we can easily see that they truly do catch & kill hundeds of the little nuisances. He always refills the catchers with fresh, undiluted attractant -the one that Lakeland sell- as it seems to work so well. I agree that wasps seem to fly in/out, but obviously it does kill many, many more than it looks as if it's doing. As a bonus, wasps buzz round the catchers, rather than round us.

I was so happy with my Wasp Catcher and found after the summer, there were 100's of wasps and a few hornets caught in there. I was also pleased that there were very few bees caught when used with the wasp attractor liquid.Emptying was a bit tricky and you need to make sure that you screw the base in securely or it will leak.

I put a bit of honey into the trap and diluted it with some water. The wasps flew in and then drowned in the sweet mixture. So I found it worked fine, only trouble is having to empty the dead critters out - yeuch!