Swarm Bait, Slum Gum, and Old Black Drone Comb. Make the bees come to you?

[keeperofthebees]

Have any of you gone around shoveling(or hand tossing) slum-gum into old trees along the fence line, bluffs in the woods, bad fodder bales by the manure pile, junk piles in the ditch, field rock picked from the hay field/piled up in the ditches, and any other spot shaded with brush that might make an interesting spot for the bees to set up shop so you can snatch them later?  I can't find much of a use for the slum gum, but as far as I'm concerned it smells like a hive.  The way the queens are having issues anymore, I might as well fire up the 4 wheeler and fill the dump box with bee-bait on my way down to the fishing hole(when the weather gets nice).  Theres a nice spot in the area where my buddys wife doesn't want the wall torn out to remove the feral colony inside.  The bees themselves have lived in an old dead oak for yrs!  A few yrs ago they set up shop in the wall of the old farmhouse.  Rotten old small squares of straw & hay are a dime a dozen to stack up & stuff with bee-bait.

What's some good swarm bait that we usually think of as junk to throw away?  Have any of you had any luck with the following?

Old drone comb?
Rotten hive frames in a stack?
Beat up old deep boxes that were abandoned by someone else, give them a wrap of chicken wire to keep the mice out?
Slum gum of course?

[iddee]

Old combs are the best lure you can get. Retired hive boxes are great to put them in. A drop of lemongrass oil helps, too. Slumgum makes a great fire starter.

[Marty68]

Should we put empty frames with the old comb so they can build their own comb or just old combed frame s all together. I heard you should put both in it.

[BoilerJim]

From Iddee  - "Slumgum makes a great fire starter."

Thanks Iddee, I like that idea.

[apisbees]

Should we put empty frames with the old comb so they can build their own comb or just old combed frame s all together. I heard you should put both in it.

One in the middle to attract the bees the rest foundation so they pull new comb we don't want them wasting all the nectar they took with them on restoring old comb old comb could also attract wax moths as well so we don't want to much of it in the trap

[tbonekel]

I don't have a lot of old comb in frames, but I do have some loose comb from a cutout. I'm going to try to attach it to a frame and see what it does in a trap this year.

[Marty68]

Ty Apis I will only put one in it then.

[rcannon]

Forgive my ignorance, but exactly what is "slum gum"?

[apisbees]

Strainings from wax specialy old brood comb.

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