At 08:30 AM 6/24/03 +0200, you wrote:
>Isn't a combination of smoking and drumming a better way to get bees into
>a new box?

I know someone who makes package bees this way.  He takes off the inner
cover, puts a queen excluder and a super on top.  He then smokes them from
the bottom  with some bee go in the smoker to drive them up.  Then just
shake the frames from the super into the package.  No need to spend time
finding the queen.  I do not know exactly how he uses bee go in the
smoker.  I'm assuming he puts a wad of newspaper with a little bit of bee
go/honey robber in the top of his smoker.

-Tim

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