need some tips on keeping Yellow Jackets from my display at outside farm market

[adamant]

each year we doing outside festival late in September and we always have problems with the yellow jackets hovering around the observation hive and my honey samples. Can you provide me with some tips on keeping them away

[GSF]

Try some tuna fish in a jar with an inverted cone. yj's will come to meat but honeybees won't. Of course it's better to find the source. You might could throw something white on them like flour and try to track them to their nest. But then again, folks see all that white powder on the ground they will think poison and be turned off by the display.

[hjon71]

If you could get access to the area a couple days before and hang a YJ trap might be an option.

[rookie2531]

Are you feeding the hive HBH. That stuff will draw them in even after a jar is empty and dry.

[jayj200]

Try some tuna fish in a jar with an inverted cone. yj's will come to meat but honeybees won't. Of course it's better to find the source. You might could throw something white on them like flour and try to track them to their nest. But then again, folks see all that white powder on the ground they will think poison and be turned off by the display.

must also have frontline flea drops in the tuna or cat food. set these bait traps out about a week before the show and tell

[AllenF]

Sevin on a can of tuna works well also.  just watch where you put it. 

[rookie2531]

Sevin on a can of tuna works well also.  just watch where you put it. 

Would that be liquid or dust?