Wasp traps have been flying off the shelf at the IRLY Building Centre.
So far this year they’ve sold 445 of the death traps, which is “a tremendous amount,” says general manager Lena Simms.
However, the store is also offering tutorials on how to build your own trap:
• take an empty two-litre pop bottle
• cut off the top portion and put it upside down, lidless, into the top of the remaining portion bottle
• pour in a little bit of cooking oil and add a piece of raw fish or bacon. (In the fall, substitute the protein with something sweet.)
• set it out and wait for the wasps.
The oil makes it impossible for the wasps to climb out and they die.
