Successful Swarm Luring

[beyondthesidewalks]

I haven't been trapping swarms very long, 3 or 4 years.  In that time I have noticed a dramatic increase in the number of feral hives around me.  That may account for my success.  I don't know why the feral bees have started doing better.  For the last half of the 1990s and the first half of the first decade of the 2000s they were just about gone.  Seems like they are getting more numerous every year.  Mostly black feral bees.  Some tend to run a little hot.

[Scott Derrick]

Yep...old comb and lemongrass oil works!