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You WONT BELIEVE THIS!

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#1 ·
THEY'RE HERE THEY'RE HERE!
check it out!
http://s76.photobucket.com/albums/j37/Maine_Beekeeper/
I can't believe they chose the dog food box! Anyone who says leomngrass oil is bunk is WRONG!

What do I do now?!? If I'd shaken the swarm down I'd be puring them right inot a hive.
What do I do with these guys? Let them settle down a while?

I'm so excited I can't believe my eyes!
 
#27 ·
Maine_Beekeeper,
Congratulations on your stick-to-itive-ness and your I'll-try-anything attitude. Sometimes no matter what the situation, these two qualities are the only methods that will carry the day. Good luck with your new hive.
 
#28 ·
I've had two replies to this old message in the past week from people in a similar situation (swarm in a tree). Just to update, the colony is now named Carhartt (after the duct tape on the swarm box). They're doing great - Just finishing drawing out their first super.
Thank you for all the posts of encouragement. We (this post and the picture of the swarm going into the box) made it into last months issue of the Maine Beekeepers Association newsletter. Hey look, my bees are famous!
 
#31 ·
> you can make synthetic Nasonov from 2:1
> citral and geraniol.

The Wiki advice is not representative of "best
practices". Try 1:1 rather than 2:1.

The standard-issue "pro" recipe for studies,
(like trapping swarms to see how many are AHB
versus EHB) as mentioned in many papers, is a
total of 100 microliters of a mix of geraniol,
nerolic acid, and citral at 1:1:1 ratios in a
250 microliter "Micro Test Tube" with attached
caps which you can buy from:

BioRad Laboratories
2000 Alfred Nobel Drive
Hercules, CA 94547

The nerolic acid is very hard to find, and can
be left out without too much loss of utility,
but the ratio should still be 1:1 for the
remaining two chemicals, and the total volume
per tube still wants to be 100 microliters.
The crucial thing is the plastic used in the
tube, Polyethylene, which allows a slow release
of the vapors through the tube wall.

It also helps to keep this stuff out of
sunlight to avoid UV breakdown, so wrapping
each tube in black or dark blue construction
paper is also a good idea.

To make this cost-effective, you need to be
mixing up a big batch, and filling a whole
buncha tubes. In decent quantity, one can
buy the pheromone lures from Pherotech for
$0.50 each, which is what most projects do.

...and if you buy the lures, you DON'T
ever remove the cap!
 
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