Late afternoon break…

Auggie is barely discernable in the upper left … at the end of the shaft of sunlight…

Bear near me…

Late afternoon: Tuesday.

*** New bait in all of the traps and by lunchtime they each (3 of them) had 6-8-10 captures. I went back to the hardware for some disposable traps. The reusables I have do not actually kill the yellow jackets. It seems a bit cruel to let them die of starvation or lack of oxygen or ??? The disposables have liquid, i.e. they drown. Gah. There are certainly more yellow jackets than needed and I’d like to not worry about any of us being stung…but I’d really like a humane method of dispatching them! And I hope these are queens so that I am preventing thousands of hatchlings…but even with the markings…I am not absolutely sure. It is a bit disconcerting to suddenly be seeing and trapping so many… bleah!