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  • From: "birdcr AT concentric.net" <birdcr AT concentric.net>
  • To: ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [ocba] Small Hive Beetle Trap Bottom Board.
  • Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 17:07:56 -0500 (CDT)

Folks,

Every day for weeks I have been killing beetles crawling around
in
the empty top feeder at my hive. I heard about these bottom board
beetle traps at the last meeting and thought I'd give it a try.
See http://www.greenbeehives.com/abgrbe.html It came via UPS
yesterday and I'll paint it when I get the chance and install it
on my next inspection early next week or Sunday if the weather
permits. Any one have any tips or suggestions on this trap? Funny
thing is I stopped at Busy Bee recently and they had this trap on
the computer screen( I had looked at the page the night before)
and were thinking of building some, they do have instructions on
a
DIY trap on the web site.

Here is how the beetle trap works, you pour in about 1/4 inch of
cooking oil, this is under the hive. When the bees push around
the
beetles they fall in and drown, any other pests drown as well. It
has #6 screen so the bees can not get in. You empty it from the
back of the hive.

The bees here have been none stop in bringing pollen for the past
two weeks. I did a walk about to the neighbors three hives and
found one hive dead and full of moths. On my walk about I noticed
the bush clover (Lespedeza spp) is attracting bees big time. This
lespedeza is the white to pink one covered in flowers all up the
stems, there is hundreds of acres of it growing around here.
While
in Durham last Sunday at the Farmers Market garden I saw hundreds
of bees on Narrow-leaved Sneezeweed, pretty impressive for
downtown.

Last Saturday we attempted to extract a hive in a porch last
week.
The hive was inside a 2ft x 2ft brick column so no rescue was
done
as access was impossible. So I now have a bee vac and a new hive
ready for bees. I have room for only one more hive here. I have
permission to install future hives down the hill from here at a
farm/plant nursery which I'm pretty excited about.

Cheers,
Randy Emmitt
www.rlephoto.blogspot.com




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