>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