Countless beekeepers praise and recommend this book and have used its information with great success. Why buy bees when you can lure and catch healthy local swarms that have successfully overwintered? McCartney s Taylor s super informative book includes the following chapters:

• Why Trap Swarms?
• Trees
• Biology of Swarming
• Swarm Names
• History
• Alternatives to Traps – Catching swarms
• Building a Swarm Trap – The Hanging Box Type
• Baiting a Swarm Trap
• A Note for Non-Beekeepers
• Times for Swarms
• Safety
• Using GPS
• Legality
• Disease
• Location
• Expectations
• All Good Things Must End

• Soft cover. 60 pages.

  50 pages. 7 by 10 . Paperback. Color photographs. 2011.

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