However, anyone interested in working with a beekeeper can use this service. The contact person for the UC Farming Apprenticeship Program is Nancy Tibbits, Coordinator of the Internships and Career Center at UC Davis. Nancy will handle your contact with as much confidentiality as you request, from having her screen all potential candidates before giving your name and number only to a single candidate to making your desires known simultaneously on the many campuses with which she cooperates. At the moment this service is provided free as a perk to students. As is always the case, I was able to pick up some interesting bits of information when I attended the Washington State Beekeepers' Association annual convention.
Western states seem to be plagued with yellowjackets.
The square-sided bottles are packaged in a nice, divided box. The wasps enter the trays through the ends of the PVC tube, are released into the bottle, but can't find the slot to get back out. Besides they are likely to drown in the two cups of sugar, two cups of water and three or four tablespoons of vinegar that are placed in the traps. The older the solution gets, the more wasps it attracts. The vinegar is supposed to keep bees and ants away from the trap.