Howard wrote:
> Richard Taylor discusses Swarm Bob's on page 100 of the revised How To Do
It
> Book of Beekeeping.  He describes it as as a swarm bait.  I don't think I
> have ever seen it used - has anybody tried it?
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     If a swarm bob might be a tennis ball hanging in a length of used nylon
stocking, mimicking the beginings of a hanging swarm cluster, I have used
one and the swarms that issued that spring paid no attention to it. The
swarm bob was hanging twenty feet in front of the hives.
     (Once, I captured a queen as a swarm was flowing out of a hive. I
placed her in a small, perforated, clear plastic cage and hung the cage
where I wanted the swarm to cluster, twenty feet in front of the hive. The
bees paid no attention to her.)
Tim
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