More on Swarm Traps

Cool, rainy weather gives more time in the shop which I have used to continue making boxes, most recently 5-frame boxes to use as nucs or I want to experiment with building up some 5-frame colonies.  But I can't give up the idea of catching swarms this Spring and these boxes won't be needed for many weeks.  In an earlier post I showed how I used some nuc boxes to make up a swarm trap so I thought, why not do it again.

I didn't want to make a big ol' hole in my nice new boxes, though, so I thought why not make the hole in the bottom?  I doubt any scout bees would care where the hole is as long as it smells good (lemon grass oil).  So I found some pieces of siding material in my scrap pile to make tops and bottoms and used the cabinet latches described in the previous post to attach two nuc boxes to make a two story 5-frame trap.  The picture below is worth a thousand words.