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OLIGUACOMOLE
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[*] posted on 8-3-2009 at 02:42 PM


Here is another bee story. Last winter Tecate Beer brings us some new wooden chairs. They are a little rustic and I wonder if a little lemon oil I bought at Smart n Final might work on the wood. I have one chair up on the counter and am coating it with lemon oil. Soon I have a few bees in the restaurant then hundreds. They seem to be going to the chair. I take the chair outside and a swarm goes to the chair. I then take the cloth rag with lemon oil and throw it on a clay pot 20' away. Soon the swarm goes to the lemon oil soaked cloth. The swarm stayed there for at least three weeks until they just died out.
Later I googled about traps for honey bees. A company claimed to be able to catch swarming bees. They had real good success in Arizona along golf courses. In the ad they say their traps have a nice lemon scent???
It might be a way to catch a swarm to put in your beehive.
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[*] posted on 8-10-2009 at 04:51 PM


You all are on the right path-- keep a water source out for the bees-- im a bee keeper and use plastic gutter (5 foot pieces) fill them with gravel or small rock-- and then with water-- you dont have the trouble with them drowning-- im in the midwest and refill them every 2-3 days-- ofcourse they are in the ponds- creeks and bird baths-- like nectar sources-- water sources are conveyed to the hive and thus another source may be closer-- they'll use the one they have found--

also the lemon scent is used in swarm traps-- tho its not really lemon-- ive forgotten the source-- but sure smells like lemon pledge. its the only hobby i ever started that paid for itself and has become a nice source of income too.
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