[Sca-cooks] Dealing with Stinging Insects

[Laura C. Minnick]

At 11:35 AM 11/15/2005, you wrote:
>I purchased a lovely Medieval style bee catcher several years back, and it
>is a wonder to behold.  I saw one a few years ago that was much smaller, but
>identical.  It is a glass jar with a hole in the bottom that is raised about
>an inch on feet.  It has a removable top for cleaning out later, and for
>adding a sweet liquid around the hole.  The bees are smart enough to get
>into the thing, but can't seem to figure out how to get back out again
>(unless you accidentally leave the top off <grin>).  Having such a catcher
>just outside your place of food set up is invaluable, as they tend to go
>after its sweet smell and leave the other stuff alone.

We did something similar last week when we were having a problem with some 
fruit flies that was not going away. Got an empty glass pint jar, put about 
1" of sherry in it, put foil over the mouth of the jar (and put the canning 
ring down over it) and then poked a dozen or so fruit-fly sized holes in 
the foil. Worked like a charm. It seems that fruit flies really like cheap 
sherry!

'Lainie
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