Okay,
Here’s the modern version.
Cut around a plastic drinks bottle, approximately two or three inches from the top, there’s your funnel, pop your funnel upside down into the body of the plastic bottle, it will fit.
Pour in some water ( (wasps can’t swim) and smear some of what ever the wasps want just around half way down in the funnel.
It actually works, upcycling to boot 
Ahhh I get it, yes…they can’t climb back out if they go inside the funnel bit can they? For example, they won’t eat, say, honey…then be able to wiggle back out without touching the water? Just checking…wasps are wily buggers! 
No…they drown
Maybe give it a go?
It’s just a little something you can knock up when you’re out and about, in a beer garden for example.
It’s not about war on wasps , a distraction is sometimes good enough 
They do us all more good than harm.
we use a Jam jar filled with water, with just a little Jam smeared around the rim , the wasp will drown feasting on the Jam .
I’ll try that too, but only if I see them. I don’t want to attract them in the window and have them think there’s a party going on! 
Heaven forbid!
Before you know it the midges will turn up, you’ll have a rave on your hands, not that you’ll get any sympathy from me
Oh my goodness, the dreaded midgey rave 
gosh clearly you have not been exposed to one of them…yet. It’s a sight to behold, lemme tell ya! Once they start biting and the people start scratching, well…all hell is let loose.
Thank you for your non-sympathy. It’s not appreciated.
I’m slamming my windows shut. 
Chilly, I am trying to visualise your bottle trap idea.
So when you cut the neck of the bottle off, then turn it upside down and poke it back into the bottle, should part of the nozzle neck go under the water?
I cant quite get this picture clear in my head yet. 
No Mups, the depth of the water is largely irrelevant, an inch or for the wasps to drown in at the bottom of the bottle is fine, keep your funnel dry and away from the water, the wasps tend to slip and slide, job done:-)
Thankyou again, Chilli.
I still can’t understand why they don’t have a slurp on the jam/honey, or whatever, and then just fly off again though.
I will try it and let you know how I get on. 
Ooh, one more thing - how much water shall I pour in the bottle please?
Your welcome Mups,
I’m never going to get a job on Blue Peter but just to clarify, enough water for the wasps to fall into is fine,
Just keep the little blighters clear of the bottom of the funnel:-)
Was watching Tenable on ITV a couple of days ago. Warwick Davies said that if you wanted to keep flies out of the house, then leave bunches of lavender near doors and windows since flies apparently dislike them.
Wonder is there’s a similar deterrent for wasps. Seems a shame to destroy/kill such a useful little blighter.
If I hung bunches of Lavender in my doorways and windows, I might not get flies in, but I’d soon have a house full of Bees instead.
My Lavender bushes are crawling with Bees, they love it.
There’s just no pleasing some people.
Anyway, still seems a shame to go round killing a useful (although irritatingly scary) insect.
They probably won’t do anything - just say to leave them alone until Autumn when they will leave anyway. That is all that happened when a friend of mine reported a nest in her loft. Wasps never return to a used nest if that is any consolation
Wait…won’t smearing stuff with waspy goodness attract wasps…?
The flying insect zapper in my kitchen attracts & zaps all winged stingers and very efficient it is too. I also have a better looking type I deploy in the sitting room areas when needed.
Some years ago we had a wasp nest in the roof just above our bedroom window it was some kind of breather hole, I phoned our council and he said it will cost £200 but I can put some powder in the hole, so I got the powder put up my long ladder and had a brain wave, why not lean out the bedroom window to do the dead.
I pumped in 3 or 4 pumps in the hole then closed the window, WOW, the window was black with them they wanted to kill me, it was two days before I moved the ladder.
Crikey. Just as well you didn’t do it from the top of that ladder!!
