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Offline rcannon

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« on: March 29, 2015, 08:06:34 pm »
I had a swarm today move into an old nuc. I'd sprayed some Swarm Commander in this one last week and didn't spray the other two sitting beside it. I don't know if that stuff done the trick, but I'm going to try using it on more traps.
This is not a very good picture, there are quite a few bees in the bottom of the box where there weren't any frames.


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« Reply #1 on: March 29, 2015, 08:08:35 pm »
Awesome!
Any idea where it came from?
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« Reply #2 on: March 30, 2015, 08:24:14 pm »
Not yet. I'm going to look through my hives in a few days, so right now I don't know if they were mine or not. I do know that there are a few feral hives around and a preacher down the road has a few hives, so there's no telling.
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« Reply #3 on: April 02, 2015, 03:00:02 am »
Hoping that bodes well for the Swarm Commander. All my swarm boxes are getting it this year.
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« Reply #4 on: April 02, 2015, 09:01:42 am »
Ya, I got suckered into a bottle. I'm trying a old recipe that I found too, along with the usual lemongrass oil, it has geranium and lemon oil. If this weather holds, it looks like I can put the boxes out at the end of the month,
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« Reply #5 on: April 02, 2015, 08:16:41 pm »
I've got a few traps out and now have Swarm Commander sprayed in all of them. I've noticed a lot of scouts checking them out.
I've not had a lot of luck trapping swarms, I get one or two a year. I hope this stuff improves my catch rate.
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