wasps in the coop

[a74aggie]

The attached blue paint chip colors have worked when you paint the ceiling this color. It supposedly fools the wasps into thinking the ceiling is the sky. Seems to work for dirt daubers as well.
Have your local paint company match these colors and give it a try !

 

[FlyingNunFarm]

Has anyone tried bucket traps?
I've heard to hang meat from a string on a dowel into the bucket just over soapy water. The wasps go to eat the meat (spam is recommended) and when the go to fly off they dip down hitting the soapy water.
I've been meaning to make some but haven't had the chance. I wondered if they work.