Content-Type: |
text/plain; charset="utf-8" |
Date: |
Mon, 20 Sep 2021 07:44:26 -0400 |
Reply-To: |
|
Subject: |
|
MIME-Version: |
1.0 |
Message-ID: |
|
Content-Transfer-Encoding: |
quoted-printable |
Sender: |
|
From: |
|
Parts/Attachments: |
|
|
> I finally set up a light trap outside to get them before they got in. I have caught 20-50 bees in an hour that way. I don’t run it all night, because it’s battery-run, and I’m afraid of weirdly attracting healthy bees.
You could try putting a hood (start with a tube shape) around the light to transform it into a "spotlight", to thrown a narrow beam at the entry area, with no stray light viewable from other angles. What this trick does is attract only the bees that fly into the targeted area, but without seeming to be a light soruce from other angles.
A lit-up surface is reflected light, so the bees will not be attracted to that surface like they are to a light source that is sending out the photons. A student of mine learned this the hard way when she took down curtains in very early spring for cleaning, and found the exposed windows covered with bees from the hives on her deck in the evening. Prior to that, the curtains had always been closed at night, so the bees had never been exposed to that bright light.
***********************************************
The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned
LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to:
http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html
|
|
|