Yellow Sticky Traps are in!

Mike and Denise have yellow sticky traps set up in their beds already. The traps help you monitor what pests are prevalent. In other words,  they give you an early heads up that you are about to have a problem before it becomes a huge problem.

Denise has found all kinds of interesting critters stuck in hers. There is a great insect book in the shed in the book box that will help you ID what you have caught.

How do you use them you say?
  You need:
   1 yellow Sticky Trap
   1 Binder Clip
   1 twistie, zip tie or cable tie to run through the top of the binder clip and then tie to your plant stake.
   1 plant stake to clip the sticky trap to.
    You can get small plant stakes from Lowe's, Home Depot, etc. to clip them to. (To find them, just look in the garden department in the trellis area). Or use whatever you have handy at home or is already in your bed at the garden.
  Per Denise, you want the trap to hang slightly above the leaves of the plants but not where it can catch the leaves if the wind blows. She also says that as the plants grow, you will need to move the sticky trap higher so it is above the leaves again.

Go in the shed and look for the box that says "Yellow Sticky Traps".

Open the box and find the open package of sticky traps.

Pull out one trap and one binder clip. 

Each side of the sticky trap has a slick white

 paper covering the sticky bits.

But before you pull both sticky bits off, attach the

 binder clip to the end that isn't sticky.

 

It would have been much easier to use a twistie to tie the binder

 clip to the plant stake because my first try caused the

 sticky trap to fall out and get dirt on it

 

 Words of Warning: 

Once you have your stake in place, clip the sticky trap to it.

THEN pull the white paper off both sides.

 

Failure to do that means you most likely will have the sticky trap stuck to something you don't want it to. See above where I got dirt in it.

 

Second word of warning - put the trap in a location you are not likely to lean into. It is a bear getting the sticky stuff out of your hair! (Yes, I've done that too.)