Too small (even if doubled).
Gear Capacity (L) - 11.36 liters
Too small (even if doubled).Like the swarm traps you can buy the volume is about comparable to a nuc, but I suppose you could connect 2 together if you want a large trap.
Hmm..https://shop.vericoolpackaging.com/
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That looks like a better size, and the price is even a little lower, at least before you calculate shipping. Not sure what the dimensions are, but that rim might hold a top bar or frame. Thanks for the link. I might have to buy one (or three) to see.https://shop.vericoolpackaging.com/
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Sure thing.My thoughts were:............
Well, if you have empty used hives - sure.You will waste time and money on a funky box AND then need to spend time and money on an actual bee box to put your catch into. Your best value is to make traps out of real bee boxes and be said and done in one step and investment.
Well, if you have empty used hives - sure.
Use them - a no-brainer.
But if no used boxes are available, why buy/build 10 full hive boxes so to only catch 1-3 swarms into them (or nothing at all)?
Brand new wooden hive box is no different from brand new cardboard box - both are not ideal because they are NOT used yet.
Might as well go the easiest/cheapest/fastest way and do cardboard.
Let us not forget - not everyone one has stacks and stacks of old, used hive boxes.
You mean this?Cost of budget box from Mann Lake...$14.
Thanks for all the input. I will consider myself warned odFrank. Sometimes you have to figure out HOW you want to waste your time and this doesn't seem the worst way (yet).
Although if you have any extra boxes you want to sell for pennies, I drive by San Mateo every few weeks.
I do have a new box that I will be assembling this weekend, but boxes have a tendency to become hives and then you are out of empty boxes again.
There are hundreds of piles of empty boxes all across California.Although if you have any extra boxes you want to sell for pennies, I drive by San Mateo every few weeks.![]()
Yep.There are hundreds of piles of empty boxes all across California.
Here is one in Linden:
https://stockton.craigslist.org/grd/d/linden-10-frame-bee-boxes-with-frames/6881714066.html