A Connoisseur's Bait Box

[odfrank]

Caught a nice swarm in a winebox bait box, and made a new one. They come in different lengths and sizes from different wineries. On the 21" long ones you have to add a 3/4" board to each inside end for frame rests, on the 19" +/- boxes the frames rest on the edges, and I have to add a rim around the top to hold the cover above the frames. I splice two together for deep or jumbo depth frames and add an entrance disk. Free, lightweight, good looking, a bit time consuming to hobble together. Please note they were caught with bait box on ground level.

[concrete-bees]

great job---- looks good -

also where did you get the metal entrance disc - betterbee has plastic

[CentralPAguy]

I am always amazed at the ingenuity that I see on Beesource.

OdFrank -- Great Pics and thanks for sharing.

[bhfury]

Great Job

[odfrank]

[QUOTE=concrete-bees;
also where did you get the metal entrance disc [/QUOTE]

Kelley

https://products.kelleybees.com/wtkp...aspx?item=1240

My three year old plastic ones are already deteriorating.

[Mrmizilplix]

Red red wine you make me feel so fine.
Killer boxes!

[Mike S]

Good job on the boxes, thanks for the pics

[sqkcrk]

Neat.

About the numbers. Are they your own code or are they something that CA issues each registered beekeeper, like FL does?

[Kingfisher Apiaries]

[Specialkayme]

very nice. Did you have to drink all the wine to get the box, or did someone else take care of that for you?