cardboard 5 frame nucs boxes available in Australia ?

[damienpryan]

Hi All,

Does anyone know if things like these are available in Australia?
5 frame cardboard nucs.

http://www.brushymountainbeefarm.com/Waxed-Cardboard-Nuc/productinfo/191/#reviews

I'm wanting to put up bait boxes near my hives (I keep 6 hives on 3 different blocks in Melbourne) and baiting them with pheromone.
I love catching swarms also, if I miss a swarm from my hives I want a least some chance of catching before the neighbors get annoyed.

Getting a $90 wooden nuc box seems overkill for a bait box.

PS One of my hives swarmed 2 weeks ago. Seemed a very early start to the swarming season!

Cheers

Damien

[Noelzy]

Could give these guys a call about the corflute five frame nucs. http://getagro.com.au/the-grower/?is=387

[chorrylan]

Nuplas have corflute ones but you have to buy 25 which makes them a bigger outlay  than your $90 nuc unless you can share them with someone. 
http://www.nuplas.com.au/beehive-accessories/nuplas-nuc-5-frame

I'm getting  a supply in but won't have them available til mid October

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[Miikeboyle]

http://shop.theurbanbeehive.com.au/10-frame/products/nucleus-box-coreflute

[little john]

[...] 5 frame cardboard nucs. I'm wanting to put up bait boxes near my hives ...

When scouts are looking for a new home, what they are NOT looking for is "somewhere big enough for now, and we'll look for somewhere more suitable later."  What they are searching for is a permanent cavity which is large enough to house a full-sized colony, and a nuc box - by definition - is not big enough to house such a colony.

So - you may have more success in attracting swarms by using boxes which have at least twice the volume of a 5-frame deep nuc box.
Best of luck,
LJ

[cao]

So - you may have more success in attracting swarms by using boxes which have at least twice the volume of a 5-frame deep nuc box.

I would agree but I had a swarm move into an empty 5 frame medium nuc box this year.  So I would say any swarm trap that one would put up is worth a try. 

[damienpryan]

Thanks for the info guys.

I've ordered the 5 from the Urban Beekeeper.

Sometimes they don't seem to go in your bait box no matter how suitable you make it!
I put a 10 frame hive out with some old frames and some phermone and they still preferred the Rose bush in my neighbors front yard.

Cheers
Damien

[Jamie]

You can try and make them from foam boxes? This is my proposed swarm trap. I actually built it for a hogan trap, on account I can put the pipe into it anywhere, but have just run out of nucs and have to knock up some more.