>box of new frames and foundation does a good job. For nearly 30 years I've been putting out bait boxes around remote out-yards and for customers in commercial and residential buildings The first, worst mistake, I made was to place foundationed frames in the bait box. This not only never attracted / caught warms, but wasted the foundation. Returning to the bait box several months later always showed the wax curled, and/or melted, slumped down in the bottom of the super. Several times, I've observed that scouts looking at the stored supers will enter the empty boxes, ignoring the ones with frames. If they like the box, they pause at the entrance and spray their marker - even, in several cases, I've observed the scouts removing cob-webs and garbage from the box several weeks before the swarm arrived. If you don't have several dozen extra old supers in reserve, a new box (even as quick as a cardboard apple box) can be rendered attractive by rubbing it down across the entrance with a piece of old comb and then tossing it into the box before screwing a top board down. A good rule is to always place the bait box off the ground. This is usually an easy in a home situation - just put it on the garage roof (or equivalent). In the out-yards, garages are scarce, so the solution is a pallet or a piece of plywood under the super and make the entrance at the top side instead of the bottom. Also remember to observe that if only 2 or 3 frames of old, solid, dark comb are used (this is the step taken after the foundation lesson is learned) that the bees will fill the empty space of the hive with natural comb before they'll touch the old frames. David Crawford