The traps a Bud's every year was a box with a hole in the bottom for the bees to get in, and trap door to open and dump the bees out into a hive box. He would have a small medicine bottle with a small hole in it I believe. In the bottle was a cotton ball with a drop or two, not to much of lemon grass oil. He would have several traps like this out, and most would have bees in them. They had a small rope tied to it, the rope was over a limb, it was pulled up close to the limb and the other end was tied off to something close by. When you got ready you untied the rope, let it down and got the bees. Some would have started building comb on the sides. Every year I went he would have out these traps.
Good luck to you and your bees,
Joe D
I have put out traps, but where ever I have bees I will have a hive box with old comb close by. If one of my hives swarm, they will go there or if a wild hive come by it will take the box. I catch a swarm or two most years that way.
