Hi all,

I have one of these that is in real top notch condition.

I knew a hive was going to swarm a while back. I placed it on the front and 
caught the queen whenever they swarmed, I placed the "DRONE" catcher, as it 
was called many years ago, in a empty hive and vacuumed the rest of the 
swarm from a limb and placed them inside the hive with the queen. Next day I 
went to the yard to release her and low and behold, that girl had found the 
opening, I guess, in the top of the cone and crawled to freedom. If I had 
placed the catcher on the new hive as it was on the old hive and opened the 
release door, she probably would have stayed, since she could not get thru 
the excluder. Maybe next year I will try that method. Beekeepers tried to 
get rid of free loading drones many years ago.

This was an item from my Dad's bees from the '50's.

Lionel 

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