The law of unintended consequences

[rockdoc]

Oops! Not sure whether my design is wrong or this should be hung from a tree, but did not expect to catch this in my wasp trap!
Apologies if this distresses anyone.

 

[Chris B]

Is that mouse blind?
Leave the trap out and you might catch 2 more.
Just watch out for the farmers wife!

 

[madasafish]

Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie,
O, what a panic's in thy breastie!
Thou need na start awa sae hasty
Wi bickering brattle!
I wad be laith to rin an' chase thee,
Wi' murdering wasp trap.

With apologies to some Scots poet whose name escapes me

 

[Luminos]

I'll be more impressed when you catch a wasp in a mousetrap!

 

[winmag270]

I'll be more impressed when you catch a wasp in a mousetrap!

if he gets wasps that size, stuff going to his place for a jam butty!!

 

[rockdoc]

Excellent all, that's really made us laugh. I've now sited the trap in a tree on a thin string. If they get in now, I'm giving up.
I did once set a mouse trap that caught a large rat. The scary bit was finding the trap was not where I had left it. He was one very hacked off rat when I found him!

 

[Ed Woods]

Use instead of a mouseguard?

 

[dpearce4]

what was the recipe maybe you could market it as a mouse bait.

must have been a nicer way for the mouse to go than the traditional baits that make them bleed to death on the inside.

 

[Erichalfbee]

As a complete newbee I joined the annual wasp hysteria and deployed,along with numerous bottle traps, a glue trap.
The first morning it caught about fifty wasps......hoooooooray!!!!!
The second morning it caught a blue tit
The following year I made sure my colonies were strong enough to repel any wasp attack or else had their entrances shut down to a bee space. NO TRAPS
I don't know whether a drowned blind mouse is sadder than a blue tit spreadeagled on a glue board.

 

[rockdoc]

If it helps, I think the mouse was not blind, its the result of a few hours in my brew. Which is..........compost jelly!!!!!! Work that one out guys and gals

 

[Ed Woods]

As a complete newbee I joined the annual wasp hysteria and deployed,along with numerous bottle traps, a glue trap.
The first morning it caught about fifty wasps......hoooooooray!!!!!
The second morning it caught a blue tit
The following year I made sure my colonies were strong enough to repel any wasp attack or else had their entrances shut down to a bee space. NO TRAPS
I don't know whether a drowned blind mouse is sadder than a blue tit spreadeagled on a glue board.

Many years ago, before bees and chickens, I had a great veg patch - it was my pride and joy. However I had a mouse infestation and the buggers dug up and ate all my pea plants so I deployed a mouse trap.

Imagine my horror when I discovered a dead robin in the trap - it was the Robin that was at my feet everytime I did any weeding or digging

 

[justme]

I used bog standard r*bena bottles, top chopped and inverted, at my out apiary first Autumn of beekeeping. It caught 3 mice between 2 visits oops, and several wasps.

 

[Iang]

I'll be more impressed when you catch a wasp in a mousetrap!

I caught a slug in a mouse trap once - guess he wasn't quite quick enough for a smash and grab raid on the cheese!