This is a common older kitchen utensil to use when eating corn on the cob..one of these stick in each end of the cob and the flat piece on it is to keep the corn for rolling around on your plate...This keeps you from getting butter all over your fingers and also protects your fingers if the corn is too hot
This is only a guess...but what this yellow, plastic artifact might be is a type of insect trap used by farmers to keep certain types of bugs (such as Japanese beetles) off fruit trees. Organic farmers use traps like this instead of spraying poisonous pesticides to kill pests. Basically, the trap is loaded up with a chemical pheremone (spelling?) that attracts the insects. The trap allows insects to crawl inside, but they can't crawl out.
i'm 90% certain that it's a wasp and hornet trap. the fins go up, and the basket portion down with it hanging vertically. wasps get trapped inside and die.
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This is a common older kitchen utensil to use when eating corn on the cob..one of these stick in each end of the cob and the flat piece on it is to keep the corn for rolling around on your plate...This keeps you from getting butter all over your fingers and also protects your fingers if the corn is too hot
This is only a guess...but what this yellow, plastic artifact might be is a type of insect trap used by farmers to keep certain types of bugs (such as Japanese beetles) off fruit trees. Organic farmers use traps like this instead of spraying poisonous pesticides to kill pests. Basically, the trap is loaded up with a chemical pheremone (spelling?) that attracts the insects. The trap allows insects to crawl inside, but they can't crawl out.
i'm 90% certain that it's a wasp and hornet trap. the fins go up, and the basket portion down with it hanging vertically. wasps get trapped inside and die.
It looks like a corncob mini-missile.