Found at Stone Zoo

[urbpan]

Harry (the horticulture director) and I were looking at a tree knocked over by Irene. The exposed roots contained a now visible yellow jacket nest. As I stood there trying to figure out how to deal with it, Harry noticed this green orb-weaver, on a web made over night on the roots. He knows what I like, and insisted I take a picture before moving on to the problem at hand.




As the day warmed up, yellow jackets became a bigger problem. I treated three nests with insecticide dust, but workers were foraging in the concessions area, eating from dried puddles of spilled soda.


I also had to service the stable fly traps. These are fiberglass cylinders wrapped with adhesive sleeves. Under the adhesive sleeve on one trap I found this: a yellow sac spider hiding in its silken sac. I put on a fresh sticky sleeve and moved along.


A worker with the bird show greets guests with a macaw. This location was apparently impossible to be around the day before because of the yellow jacket activity at a nearby trash can. I removed the liner (stuffed with half-full soda containers) and recommended that the maintenance staff clean the outside of the trash cans. Then I hung a yellow sticky trap over the trash can to catch stragglers.

Comments

[bosoxmom.livejournal.com]

Yellowjackets are such pesky critters.UGH! I like the Macaw tho..very pretty.
also finally saw the Zookeeper.....not a bad movie..not brilliant either, but it was nice to see the zoo and some of the Boston shots were nice!!

The microbrew helped.

[elainetyger.livejournal.com]

thanks for the extermination details!

[wirrrn.livejournal.com]

I think the Sac Spider will be a better Stable Fly trap that the sticky sleeves :)