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BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => HONEYBEE REMOVAL => Topic started by: checotah on May 01, 2010, 06:34:59 pm

Title: Trap Out
Post by: checotah on May 01, 2010, 06:34:59 pm
Will I am going to try my first trap out.  I have a home with a brick wall on the outside and open interior wall so a cut out just seemed to be a bad plan.  What is the odds of getting the queen out on a trap out.  My hive is new so I'm not ready to pull a brood frame out.  So any suggestions would be welcome.

Title: Re: Trap Out
Post by: iddee on May 01, 2010, 08:26:24 pm
>>>>What is the odds of getting the queen out on a trap out.<<<<

One in a hundred, maybe 200.

>>>>So any suggestions would be welcome.<<<<

Wait until you can get a frame with eggs. A frame with a 2 inch circle of eggs is all you need.

Title: Re: Trap Out
Post by: checotah on May 01, 2010, 08:53:03 pm
Thanks for the info
Title: Re: Trap Out
Post by: checotah on May 02, 2010, 09:46:28 am
Hmm surprised that is the only option. 
Title: Re: Trap Out
Post by: JP on May 02, 2010, 09:58:47 am
Will I am going to try my first trap out.  I have a home with a brick wall on the outside and open interior wall so a cut out just seemed to be a bad plan.  What is the odds of getting the queen out on a trap out.  My hive is new so I'm not ready to pull a brood frame out.  So any suggestions would be welcome.



So you are saying the interior wall has been opened? The bees are between brick and what? Vapor barrier, blackboard, wood?


...JP
Title: Re: Trap Out
Post by: checotah on May 02, 2010, 10:05:52 am
No they are behind tongue and grove wall on the inside and brick on the outside.  What I mean is it is an open interior design no doors to isolate the area in the house.  I know I could do plastic and create walls to confine the bees.  The home is a land mark home so cutting is not really a good plan unless everything else fails.