randy oliver wrote:

> 2.  Book a two-week vacation to Florida, Texas, or Tucson, and take the
> boxes along.

Does Hawaii count?

I actually have tried, over many years, the empty box with old comb technique and have struck out every year. I 
have a bad feeling that I am the only beekeeper in the area and may find there are no bees around.

I have been on the call list for swarms and only have had one call and that was 10 years ago and might have been 
my bees, since they were close. My first swarm call resulted in a device to get bees off the trunk of a tree and 
won first prize at the 2003 EAS meeting.

So what I am doing is to try to see if there are feral bees and then track them down. The technique I intended 
to use was the bee line with sugar syrup at different places to see if first there are bees around.

One thing that I have not seen is if the saucer has better drawing if colored and/or odored and if so, what? It 
would seem that a colored saucer, flower print or bullseye would be a better draw, but, again, I await your wisdom.

Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine

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