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title: "Swarm Traps and Bait Hives: The easy way to get bees for free."
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# Swarm Traps and Bait Hives: The easy way to get bees for free.

**Brand:** mccartney m taylor
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- **What is this?** Swarm Traps and Bait Hives: The easy way to get bees for free. by mccartney m taylor
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## Customer Reviews

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    Price is high, but content is excellent
  

*by H***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 14, 2013*

This book is very short, but that's just because the author opted to write clearly rather than padding the text with extraneous wordage.  A lot of the same information is found in the (also excellent) Honeybee Democracy, but that book requires concerted effort to get through, while Swarm Traps and Bait Hives can easily be read in an hour.I'd only add a few caveats (beyond the price, which is hard to get around with print-on-demand paperbacks).  First, the author experimented in Texas, so those of us living in cooler climates might find that bait traps work as well or better in the sun as in the shade.  (I don't know if that's true, but worth a try.)  Also, he's writing entirely for Langstroth-style beekeepers, but you can easily tweak the design of the bait hive to incorporate top bars for vertical (warre) or horizontal top bar hives.  Finally, another experimenter cautioned to rehome your bees within a couple of days if you're using swarm traps close to your apiary --- otherwise, the bees will keep trying to go back to the swarm box location (just like any other time you move a colony --- ten feet or ten miles being the exception).Those few caveats aside, this little book was inspiring and I've already built my first swarm trap.  Let's hope I catch some swarms!

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    Nice Quick Intro to Swarm Traps
  

*by W***8 on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 19, 2016*

This is a quick read with what appear to be all the basics (I've never trapped bees).  My purchased bees made it ~10 months, but ran out of food late into the winter, and were then marauded when I fed them (by that point, they were too weak to defend the hive).  I've decided to try to catch some bees, and Taylor's YouTube videos and this book reference popped up several times.  I'm also in Texas, so I thought his thoughts would be good for me.The only improvement I would suggest is for Taylor to include some plans/drawings of the traps.  I think I have all I need to know from the descriptions, but I think drawings would be useful.GUTS is key, so we'll see.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Great book. Already started capturing swarms.
  

*by S***S on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 21, 2016*

Read this book a couple times. Followed the suggestions and caught my first swarm this week in Chico, California at my own house. I used the cheapest 8 frame hives Dadant offered made my own top and bottom out of scrap pallet wood. Drilled a hole stapled hardware cloth in front of it and sprayed swarm commander near the entrance and some of the frames. A friend of mine who is a commercial beekeeper was going through his stuff and gave me 3 frames of drawn comb. I put one in each of the 3 bait hives I built captured swarm in bait hive sitting on chair and hadn't even finished building the hanging piece to put in trees. This stuff works and the book already paid for itself in my opinion.

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