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« Last post by gww on Today at 01:48:47 am »
Not to be disagree with Beesnweeds post but I like a trap around my hives for a couple of reasons. I have one in my back yard and I do not see bees looking for resource very often but when I do see a bee around it, the first thing I do is walk down to my hives and look in the trees. I have hived at least three of my own before they even picked a home using this. There are studies that say most bees move away from their home hive a ways on average.
I have a theory though that hives from others like to come to where there are already hives. I had two dead outs filled this way last year. Most times except rare occasions of one or two bees, if I see bees at a trap, somebody is looking for a home. Bees most time if you don't put something sweet in the trap could care less about but get very interested when looking for a home. I do know that my swarms from my hives will look at a close trap and I have never given them a chance to move in cause I find them and shake them but it is the looking at the trap that tips me off to do that. The ones that leave a hive very seldom go very far when they first come out. Mine all land in two cedars that are the closest thing. Some people set up a Russian scion based on this fact and old early bee books advised setting up fake branches if nothing was close.
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