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Offline Steve4548

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Will it work?
« on: May 26, 2014, 06:12:45 pm »
I had a ton of bees searching around today, gave it a shot.





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Re: Will it work?
« Reply #1 on: May 26, 2014, 09:55:32 pm »
Hmmm.  Anything is possible.  Anything inside to attract them??

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Re: Will it work?
« Reply #2 on: May 26, 2014, 11:16:17 pm »
Never can tell, just like fishing.

A piece of old comb or even some propolis will have them poking around a little more.
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Re: Will it work?
« Reply #3 on: May 27, 2014, 04:21:43 pm »
More or less just for fun. I put some essential oils and waxed plastic foundation. 



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Re: Will it work?
« Reply #4 on: May 29, 2014, 10:30:19 pm »
I had a swarm ignore a swarm box 15 feet away from a gas grill they decided to move into....    >:(

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Re: Will it work?
« Reply #5 on: May 30, 2014, 01:47:51 am »
There is a video on youtube that shows a guy using a box like that and catching swarms. Tom

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Re: Will it work?
« Reply #6 on: May 30, 2014, 05:58:10 pm »
Here you go just found it again. Tom




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Re: Will it work?
« Reply #7 on: June 07, 2014, 07:45:17 pm »
I had a lot of interest but in the end they went into the neighbors garage



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Re: Will it work?
« Reply #8 on: June 07, 2014, 09:38:50 pm »
So be a good neighbor and remove them :). Jim
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