Finman
Queen Bee
- Joined
- Nov 8, 2008
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- Location
- Finland, Helsinki
- Hive Type
- Langstroth
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Theoretically, that idea that swarm would follow dead foreign queen odor, it makes no sense.
The stuff, what is uses as pure, is from Nasanov gland, which every bee has.
Michael Bush has offered the idea, but half bottle of wasted vodha was too much for me.
That spray pure works but not very food. I think that will evaporate into air in sunshine. If I would mix it into some greese, aroma would stay longer in the object.
Once I had Russian Nasanow jelly, and it worked fine. When swarm was in the air, I put jelly into mouth, and I sprayed it from mouth onto a bush. The swarm dropped down to the bush. It lasted 2 years and worked 90% fine.
I bought lure liquid in tubes, but I did not get any swarm.
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In lure hive old black comb works best. So it is said. But it does not work in open air.
And then in my apiary, swarms have landed 35 years onto same pine's branches.
My friend has a lilac bush, which has captured even this year 10 swarms. 2 metres high.
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Theoretically, that idea that swarm would follow dead foreign queen odor, it makes no sense.
The stuff, what is uses as pure, is from Nasanov gland, which every bee has.
Michael Bush has offered the idea, but half bottle of wasted vodha was too much for me.
That spray pure works but not very food. I think that will evaporate into air in sunshine. If I would mix it into some greese, aroma would stay longer in the object.
Once I had Russian Nasanow jelly, and it worked fine. When swarm was in the air, I put jelly into mouth, and I sprayed it from mouth onto a bush. The swarm dropped down to the bush. It lasted 2 years and worked 90% fine.
I bought lure liquid in tubes, but I did not get any swarm.
.
In lure hive old black comb works best. So it is said. But it does not work in open air.
And then in my apiary, swarms have landed 35 years onto same pine's branches.
My friend has a lilac bush, which has captured even this year 10 swarms. 2 metres high.
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