Hi Ruth and All

When SHB first entered Ontario in 2010 i thought that this would be  
the the last straw for me.  OMAFRA put a quarantine zone in place in  
SW Ontario near Windsor.  At that time I used screened bottom boards  
open to the ground for varroa and looked at the various traps being  
used in the US.  The Freeman trap was recommended by several people on  
line so I checked into its design.  As it was very similar to my SBB,  
I incorporated Freeman's features into mine and built several.

We still don't have SHB here but they have crossed at Niagara and are  
less than 100 miles from me. Dr Keith Delaplane spoke at the Ontario  
Beekeepers Assoc AGM last November about SHB.  I asked him, in the Q&A  
session, about SBB open to the ground, which he called SHB breeding  
farms,  then I added with full size oil trays under the screen, which  
he called a fantastic idea for trapping adult beetles and even better  
for larvae leaving to pupate.

Bob Darrell
Caledon Ontario
Canada
44N80W

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