Yellow jacket wasps feed their young liquefied insects, with caterpillars, flies and spiders comprising the largest food groups during most of the summer. The effect: Adios, garden pests!

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Bruce Gaither thought of the idea for his fly trap, No Fly Cone, because of his work with horses. Unlike regular fly strips, the adhesive trap is inside the cone so that you don't have to see the ...