>
> >I actually have tried, over many years, the empty box with old comb
> technique and have struck out every year.


OK Bill, if this is true confessions, I have also had terrible luck, even
using swarm lures.  And there are adequate bees around, since sometime my
colonies swarm like mad, but ignore the bait hives (deep supers, ply top and
bottom, 1" hole, hung in trees, swarm lure).

Randy

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