How much lemongrass oil?

[Sniper338]

How much lemongrass oil do you put in a swarm trap?

Take a q tip and smear it on the walls of the box and the entrance?

Just drop in a saturated cotton ball?

Whats yalls best methods?

[paus]

In answer to your question,  YES.  I have found that almost anything works unless you use to much LGO

[gww]

I don't know if I am one to listen to.  I had 16 traps out and only caught three swarms.  I put a couple drops on each side of a qtip and put it in a zip lock bag and did not refresh.  I put the traps out near the begining to middle of march and caught my first two swarms on may 6/7 and one more on my birthday of june 2.

Take it for what it is worth.  I am going to do the same this year. 
gww

[BeeMaster2]

I do pretty much the same.
Take the q tip with LGO on it, smear it around the entrance and seal it in a baggies and drop it in a trap. Icaugh about a dozen swarms last year in my hard. Most were not from my hives.
Jim

[jalentour]

I put a couple drops on a cotton ball and put the ball inside an unopened prescription cup with no cap.  Caught 3 swarms in 3 traps.
I really didn't put a lot of effort into it.  Was surprised with the results. 
I think my success was more related to the fact I put traps in locations where hives used to be.

[Michael Bush]

My target is four drops of lemongrass essential oil.

[wadehump]

2 drops at entrance 2 drops on a frame then a pill bottle with cotton balls I drill 4-5 small holes and rubber band in frame close to entrance. Hung 10 last year and caught 14. some were used more than 1 time caught 2 in same tree in 2 different locations.

[Michael Bush]

The rubber on the eye droppers melts when I use them, so I started just dipping a q tip in the lemongrass oil and dropping it in the hive...

[sc-bee]

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[lazy shooter]

Does anyone add any spearmint oil to their swarm traps?

[Michael Bush]

Only when I was out of lemongrass oil and only had some old HBH around.  It did not work for me.