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DaisyI said:Every fall, we have an invasion of wasps called "meat bees". Their sting is incredibly painful and on top of that, they will rip a hunk out of you to take home for dinner. You can't get away from them as they are in massive swarms in the hills around us and all the way to Lake Tahoe. When I have a couple hundred bees trying to aggressively eat me, I don't care how many I take down first.

Our "traps" (in normal years when the meat bees are in normal numbers) we make traps with raw bacon, a plastic zip lock bag and soapy water. The bees also seem to like orange juice.

Thanks for sharing, and yes, they're horrible. No offense to everyone else in this thread that are against killing these bees, but it's not the kind of insect I'd like sit on my hand so I can pet it like a butterfly. The wasps got into our attic and made nests up there and they would fly into our living room and annoy us. I bought a electric flyswatter to kill most of them. It was just so annoying. Luckily, I moved out of my old house so someone else has to deal with them now :). My dad never believed me that they were up there. Anyways, again, sorry im sharing this here, if the moderator wants to delete this thread they can if it's against the forum rules.