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Offline rober

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Re: Queen Tincture?
« Reply #20 on: August 21, 2022, 06:24:18 pm »
i use pill bottles with holes drilled in them filled with cotton balls with lemon grass oil dripped on them. my swarm traps are built to accommodate 6 deep frames. i use old dark comb combined with the lemon grass oil. if i've recently installed a new queen i'll add the used cage. i have a trap at both of my yards & have caught several swarms in each over the years. as stated i've never seen any interest in the 'tincture'. of course that's just been my experience. a lot of folks do say the tincture works.

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Re: Queen Tincture?
« Reply #21 on: August 22, 2022, 09:32:38 am »
My mentor was a fan of it.  That being said I’ve never been a big fan of doing something because that’s the way it has always been done.  If data come out that there is a better way, or that what I am currently doing isn’t effective, I am very willing to change.   
Keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
Henry David Thoreau