Ah, summer! The perfect time of year to relax outside with friends and family by packing a picnic, but what’s that buzzing around the food? Hey, these guys weren’t invited! If wasps and yellow jackets are driving you bananas while trying to enjoy a meal outdoors then you will love this 15-minute DIY project using a recycled bottle. That wasp won’t know what hit it.

Materials:

• Plastic bottle with raised dimple in bottom
• Box cutter, or drill
• Twine or wire
• Beads or yard to decorate

1. Choose a bottle for this project that has a bottom with a raised center. The goal is to create a trough in the bottle around the hole to hold the liquid. The center must be raised enough to allow the wasp to fly in, then get trapped and drown in the liquid.

2. Using the box cutter or drill, make a hole about 3/4″ in diameter in the bottom of the bottle, where it is raised up.

3. Decorate the bottle with twine, yarn, beads, and whatever else you have lying around. Wind twine or wire around the neck of the bottle and tie in a knot above to hang the bottle from a tree.

4. Fill the trough inside the bottle with a bit of jam dissolved in water. Late in the season wasps are looking for a sweet treat (earlier in the season they want proteins).

You’re done! Bye bye wasps.