Wasps are not necessarily the most popular animals for many people. To keep the predatory tabby insects at bay while eating at the patio table, it's worth knowing what you can feed them with - to distract them from the table.
How can I feed wasps sensibly and effectively?
To distract wasps from your dinner table, you can feed them sugar water, lemonade, overripe fruit such as grapes or bananas, and raw meat or fish in a remote location in the garden. This means they are more likely to linger there and leave their own table alone.
What wasps eat
The diet of wasps is clearly divided between young and old. The adults eat very differently than the larvae. In the preparation stage for adult life, a wasp larva needs a lot of protein to grow and thrive. As a fully trained wasp, she switches to predominantly vegetarian - especially sweet - food.
Nature offers wasps plenty of food sources in the form of flower nectar, plant juices, honeydew and other insects. Most species of wasps are shy of people - but the less fearful species, the German wasp and the common wasp, are known to us through their regular, greedy visits to the outdoor dinner table. Here you can also find sweet and savory foods, which are also easily accessible and don't even have to be hunted.
How can you keep the pests away? There are mainly two methods:
- The Defense: Consistently Covering Food
- Escape to the front: lure away by distant food
Putting a lid over the jam roll or lemonade jar immediately after every bite and every sip can spoil your enjoyment of an outdoor breakfast or lunch. Unfortunately, this is probably the most effective option for preventing wasps from coming in the first place.
You can use their fine nose, which allows them to head so purposefully to our garden tables, for diversionary maneuvers: by offering them food specifically - at the other end of the garden. This increases the chance that they will eat in a place where fewer hands are in the way.
We already know the culinary preferences of wasps. You can prepare a tempting buffet with sweet and savory items. You are welcome to take a bowl of pure sugar water orLemonade on. What they also pounce on is overripe fruit - grapes or bananas are best. Raw meat or fish is also very tempting for them. Of course, it is questionable whether you want to sacrifice a piece of delicious salmon or a pickled steak for this purpose. It can also attract other animals such as rats.
