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Are you in the southern hemisphere? If yes, wasps have an interesting feeding cycle that breaks when there are no more larvae around.
Adult wasps collect meat / other insects and feed it to the larvae. In turn, the larvae secrete a sugary substance, which the adults eat. Come fall, the queen stops laying so no more sugar for the adults. This causes the adults to go scavenging for carbs. That's not to say that adults won't cut out the middle man in spring and summer if the opportunity presents itself, but they don't have much choice come fall.
The last paragraph in the lifecycle and habits section talks about this.
If this is what's going on, traps help. That said, removing easy access to carbs will make it so fewer of them come visit in the first place.