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Title: How to catch a Queen
Post by: edward on March 05, 2012, 03:33:35 PM

How to catch a queen the eazy way ;)

Fangstab Koe (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJuHGCm9YEE#)

Fangstab Biene (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl0LJFHoTk4#)

mvh edward :-P

Title: Re: How to catch a Queen
Post by: edward on March 05, 2012, 03:37:52 PM

:yippiechick: in mid flight

Koenigin fangen 1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPJzGi2x1W4#)

mvh edward :-P

Title: Re: How to catch a Queen
Post by: KD4MOJ on March 05, 2012, 04:32:59 PM

magnetized numbered disk? That's what it looked like in the second video...

Mojo

Title: Re: How to catch a Queen
Post by: tefer2 on March 05, 2012, 04:42:29 PM

The best way that I know of is to place a caged queen on the top bars. Wait 5 or 10 minutes, queen in hive will smell her and come to end her life. Grab her and you are done.

Title: Re: How to catch a Queen
Post by: edward on March 05, 2012, 05:18:23 PM

I cant read German but I would suspect that the shield has some metal in it and the bar and pen has a magnet in it.

mvh edward :-P

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