Hi All,
Does anyone know if things like these are available in Australia?
5 frame cardboard nucs.
http://www.brushymountainbeefarm.com/Waxed-Cardboard-Nuc/productinfo/191/#reviews
I'm wanting to put up bait boxes near my hives (I keep 6 hives on 3 different blocks in Melbourne) and baiting them with pheromone.
I love catching swarms also, if I miss a swarm from my hives I want a least some chance of catching before the neighbors get annoyed.
Getting a $90 wooden nuc box seems overkill for a bait box.
PS One of my hives swarmed 2 weeks ago. Seemed a very early start to the swarming season!
Cheers
Damien
Could give these guys a call about the corflute five frame nucs. http://getagro.com.au/the-grower/?is=387
Nuplas have corflute ones but you have to buy 25 which makes them a bigger outlay than your $90 nuc unless you can share them with someone.
http://www.nuplas.com.au/beehive-accessories/nuplas-nuc-5-frame
I'm getting a supply in but won't have them available til mid October
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http://shop.theurbanbeehive.com.au/10-frame/products/nucleus-box-coreflute
Quote from: damienpryan on September 18, 2016, 01:41:35 AM
[...] 5 frame cardboard nucs. I'm wanting to put up bait boxes near my hives ...
When scouts are looking for a new home, what they are NOT looking for is "somewhere big enough for now, and we'll look for somewhere more suitable later." What they are searching for is a permanent cavity which is large enough to house a full-sized colony, and a nuc box - by definition - is not big enough to house such a colony.
So - you may have more success in attracting swarms by using boxes which have at least twice the volume of a 5-frame deep nuc box.
Best of luck,
LJ
Quote from: little john on September 18, 2016, 07:50:38 PM
So - you may have more success in attracting swarms by using boxes which have at least twice the volume of a 5-frame deep nuc box.
I would agree but I had a swarm move into an empty 5 frame medium nuc box this year. So I would say any swarm trap that one would put up is worth a try.
Thanks for the info guys.
I've ordered the 5 from the Urban Beekeeper.
Sometimes they don't seem to go in your bait box no matter how suitable you make it!
I put a 10 frame hive out with some old frames and some phermone and they still preferred the Rose bush in my neighbors front yard.
Cheers
Damien
You can try and make them from foam boxes? This is my proposed swarm trap. I actually built it for a hogan trap, on account I can put the pipe into it anywhere, but have just run out of nucs and have to knock up some more.