Author Topic: Show your swarm traps (Read 38392 times)

Barbarian · « **Reply #80 on:** May 15, 2014, 01:53:16 am »

Unsure about the front door.

How is it closed for transport when occupied ?

jb63 · « **Reply #81 on:** May 15, 2014, 06:42:58 am »

For transport take out the screw and put a rag in the hole,or a piece of screen over the hole.The little hole was for yellow jackets ,so they could defend it better.

riverbee · « **Reply #82 on:** May 15, 2014, 11:31:01 am »

"This one is Marty68's he's a trapper now. "

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that is really cool you guys connected jb!......

jb63 · « **Reply #83 on:** June 07, 2014, 03:30:01 am »

I brought home another one

jb63 · « **Reply #84 on:** March 16, 2015, 03:57:19 pm »

Marty 68 is working on the top of the chimney so I set a trap just in case they swarmed, and I caught one. First one of 2015 for me.

tbonekel · « **Reply #85 on:** March 16, 2015, 04:38:33 pm »

Congratulations!

jb63 · « **Reply #86 on:** March 18, 2015, 09:39:17 pm »

Thanks tbonekel

gtrr4 · « **Reply #87 on:** April 01, 2015, 12:41:17 pm »

I have two of these.

Slowmodem · « **Reply #88 on:** April 01, 2015, 03:53:14 pm »

I put mine up today in the swarm tree (where all the swarms have landed before).

capt44 · « **Reply #89 on:** April 06, 2015, 12:08:54 am »

Here are the flower pot type I use.
I caught 63 swarms last year.
This year I will put out around 40 or so.
I bait it with lemon grass oil and a piece of old comb.
I have to do a cut out each time I hive them.

jb63 · « **Reply #90 on:** April 06, 2015, 12:48:00 am »

Wow,63 is a lot.You must have some very productive trapping grounds.At least your giving them a good home.

jb63 · « **Reply #91 on:** May 09, 2015, 05:19:22 pm »

Here's some pics. of # 4 swarm from the church.I left them in the nuc about 3-4weeks.Then today they moved into some 10 frame equipment.

rrog13 · « **Reply #92 on:** May 09, 2015, 10:31:28 pm »

Nice looking queen. Did you mark her when you moved them out of the nuc?

jb63 · « **Reply #93 on:** May 10, 2015, 12:47:43 am »

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Nice looking queen. Did you mark her when you moved them out of the nuc?

Yes I did.

jb63 · « **Reply #94 on:** May 19, 2015, 01:33:57 am »

I got a call this afternoon that a swarm was moving in to the trap,so I stopped by after work.It's a nice one.

mdunc · « **Reply #95 on:** May 24, 2015, 02:40:36 pm »

Trap holds 7 frames. I use old comb & a drop or two of lemongrass oil on a cotton ball to bait. We put up 12 of these in different locations around the area & so far this year we have caught 9 swarms. 3 of these swarms came from the same exact tree that I caught swarms in last year.

LazyBkpr · « **Reply #96 on:** May 25, 2015, 09:19:39 am »

I was quite excited to try out the swarm commander this year, however, after a walk through the known bee tree locations, I made the decision no tto put my swarm boxes out this year.. Only ONE location still had live bees after the winter. I was quite depressed, as so many of those locations were three to five years old.. denoting survivors that I wanted... Seems the survivors didnt survive.. Even the bees in the Old Bee tree at the family farm are silent this year... The first time I have ever seen it empty.. So no swarm box pictures from me this year.

Gypsi · « **Reply #97 on:** May 25, 2015, 01:12:39 pm »

That is sad LazyBkpr. I know I have gotten to a beetree too late, they were already dead or gone, and their comb was infected with European Foul Brood. I brought the stump home to make a table out of, used some of the comb for swarm traps and young hives, the African hive occupied the tree so I moved their brood when I kicked them out, and yeah, Riverbee diagnosed the EFB for me in my hives the next year. After removing carpenter ants from it 2 or 3 times I put it at the curb for the city truck with the giant jaws. All the comb was gone and torched already....

I caught my abscond - no queen cells or swarm cells in her hive, the workers that came home tended the last of the capped brood and did their best to handle the SHB infestation.

But she lit in my swarm trap on the old chevy. I haven't opened the lid yet, switched them to a feeder lid and put a jar of syrup on it. Knew it was occupied when they threw the yellow jacket out.

jb63 · « **Reply #98 on:** May 31, 2015, 03:11:54 am »

Mdunc thanks for sharing you swarm trap pics. and lazy and Gypsi thanks for posting also.The last one I brought home when I moved it into ten frame equipment I couldn't find any brood or larva.I went out of town for a week and checked them today .Ya they have capped brood and eggs.The eggs may have been there I just couldn't see them before.

mdunc · « **Reply #99 on:** July 10, 2015, 12:05:38 am »

No problem....good luck.