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GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. / Re: Swarm Catching
« Last post by gww on Today at 03:44:47 pm »It could be that there was a swarm and it left somewhere while bees were scouting and those are lost bees coming to a place that got marked earlier. In this case, they probably eventually drift back to the hive they came from. There is no real way to know. I had a large bunch come to a trap and do the figure eight moves around the tree the trap was on only to fly back off to never be seen. I thought this is it but it was not. I have brought traps home as I was pretty sure only to find that they had really moved into a different trap which is a caution against wasting resources of several traps in one area as spreading them thinner and a mile apart would increase the odds in my opinion. My best guess when I see bees just coming and going in and not really measuring is they are taking something from the trap, I always thought minerals from the wood or such but mostly bees don't care about traps or lemon grass oil unless they are looking or maybe during a real derth at which times they will check me out also when just sitting on the back porch.