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Beekeeping => Swarms, Cut Outs, Trap Outs and Bee Trees => Topic started by: Curtchann on July 05, 2016, 05:14:47 pm

Title: Tree Trap out
Post by: Curtchann on July 05, 2016, 05:14:47 pm

Set a trap out today for a local landowner. Bees are getting aggressive. Need to level out the box a little more. Tough terrain on the slope and ditch.
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Title: Re: Tree Trap out
Post by: iddee on July 05, 2016, 10:24:34 pm

It doesn't look like you have a frame of open brood and eggs in the hive. If not, that's why they are aggressive.

Title: Re: Tree Trap out
Post by: Curtchann on July 06, 2016, 06:09:31 pm

Added the frame of eggs and open brood today. They calmed very quickly. Lots of fanning at the entrance when I left.

Title: Re: Tree Trap out
Post by: G3farms on July 06, 2016, 09:41:20 pm

Looking good!!

Some of the trap out stands are tough to come up with, looks like you did a good job of it though!

Title: Re: Tree Trap out
Post by: Curtchann on July 12, 2016, 12:31:54 am

Checked on the trap out this evening. Bees still moving out of cone. Noticed 3 larvae dropped in cone that bees were attempting to remove. Has been on for a week now.

Title: Re: Tree Trap out
Post by: rober on July 12, 2016, 07:30:29 am

I usually just screw some metal shelf brackets to the tree.

Title: Re: Tree Trap out
Post by: Curtchann on July 17, 2016, 08:19:47 am

The other frame with a queen cell I put in had the queen cell tore diwn. Guess they liked this frame better.
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Title: Re: Tree Trap out
Post by: Jacobs on July 20, 2016, 12:44:14 pm

(https://s32.postimg.cc/j8uianjld/Library_Trapout_IMG_1047.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/image/j8uianjld/)

I got this idea speaking with fellow Guilford Beekeeper, Roy Lowe.  My neighbor (and fellow beekeeper)  hunts and has several tree stands.   He set up the stand and I set up the bait hive. 

Title: Re: Tree Trap out
Post by: Perry on July 20, 2016, 02:06:03 pm

Hey Jacobs. Is that a swarm trap, or a trap-out? I don't see a cone. ???

Title: Re: Tree Trap out
Post by: Jacobs on July 20, 2016, 08:10:52 pm

It is a trapout.  The cone is hard to see, but it is near the upper entrance/inner cover of the nuc.  I just got back from checking it and it looks like the nuc has plenty of bees and I can take it home and put another one up with a Wayne's Bee brood frame in it.  I just need to double check timing so that I am not moving it when the queen development is in the most delicate stage.

Title: Re: Tree Trap out
Post by: Curtchann on July 23, 2016, 07:33:32 am

Update....
Have not seen any bees exiting hive for a few days. The bees have filled a medium super of drawn comb with honey. The queen cell they made that I found last week has disappeared. Not sure if it hatched and they tore down the cell. The two deep frames of brood I gave them are being backfilled with nectar. They are starting to draw more frames of foundation. I have more mediums with drawn comb that I could put in and add anothet box under the other full medium. Should I give them some more frames of capped brood? I'm kinda concerned if a queen hatched and she comes back from mating flight and has no room to lay.

Title: Re: Tree Trap out
Post by: iddee on July 23, 2016, 08:25:19 am

She should not start laying for another week or more. In the meantime, they should draw comb in the deep. A frame of capped brood never hurts if there are enough bees to cover it.

Title: Re: Tree Trap out
Post by: Curtchann on July 23, 2016, 08:30:08 am

Thanks Iddee! Will be adding some capped brood this afternoon. Plenty of bees in there. Will take some updates pics.