What Is The Best Beetle Trap?

[capt44]

I use Swiffer pads with good results.
I place them on top of the frames in the top box (back)
wish I could post pictures and I'd show some of the pads full of beetles.
I catch very few bees.
The Freeman beetle tray is good but needs a lot of maintainance especially after rains.
I know one person put diodomestic earth in the freeman tray and places a piece of a pollen patty right in the middle.
It attracts the small hive beetles which in turn get cut up in the tray.

[Ben Framed]

I use Swiffer pads with good results.
I place them on top of the frames in the top box (back)
wish I could post pictures and I'd show some of the pads full of beetles.
I catch very few bees.
The Freeman beetle tray is good but needs a lot of maintainance especially after rains.
I know one person put diodomestic earth in the freeman tray and places a piece of a pollen patty right in the middle.
It attracts the small hive beetles which in turn get cut up in the tray.

Thanks Richard, and thanks for the pm. very helpful and very appreciated !!!!

[Ben Framed]

Part of you quote form reply 6

AR, hello buddy, see ya at the next bee meeting.

Mr. Ben, consider using a can of freeze spray.  Available at amazon or local office supply stores as it?s used to blow dust off delicate computer parts.  The spray is also used in doc office to freeze warts, moles, precancerous (spots) in skin.  It is non flammable, non toxic and minus 62 F.

Mr. Ben, when a beek opens a hive, the beetles make a jail brake and typically 5-7 days later a beek opens the hive again to see slimed frames. This happens all the time in the South, even to yours truly.
So, I got tired of this jail break scenario and tried freeze spray.  It is like this:  now I open a hive, the beetles scatter and run into the bottom of the comb cell, I insert the tube that comes with the can of freeze spray into the cell, pull the trigger on the spray can and that beetle is a goner. 
Usually the beetle jail is in the outer frames, 1,2 or 9,10 where food is stored so freezing the opposite cell is of no harm.  If bees are in the way, hold the can 8?10 inches away and give the bees a quick
blast of cold air.   The bees willl scatter away from the beetles giving you a clear shot.
When I open a hive, every beetle is sprayed, I leave few survivors, as on occasion a beetle flys off, but I get him/her sooner or later leaving Van with a big smile.
These beetles are very susceptible to freeze, drops them dead.

Thanks Van, sounds very effective and fun to boot!!
Phillip