Oops - all my good intentions ... No, Drumgerry - I withdrew from the CSI project and returned the Fairweather trap. (I've built many in my head though.) If you can figure one out, please let me know.
Kitta
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Oops - all my good intentions ... No, Drumgerry - I withdrew from the CSI project and returned the Fairweather trap. (I've built many in my head though.) If you can figure one out, please let me know.
Kitta
Will do Kitta. Strangely there seems to be a scarcity of decent instructions on the web. If anyone has decent pics of an OAC trap or the like I'd be most grateful
Ok so the OAC trap dpesn't look like a difficult build if I can find the right sized mesh. I will report back....
Plans for it are here......http://www.ontariobee.com/sites/onta...nstruction.pdf
Do tell us (me anyway!) if you decide to do a production run. But yes, it doesn't look too difficult. I might even give it a try myself.
Or maybe the Sundance trap? That's the one I've used and it was great.
https://www.kelleybees.com/product-i...len%20Trap.pdf
Would you put pollen sub on the hive with these on given pollen drives brood growth? Or is a few days no big deal?
Collection is only done for a couple of days at a time Paul so not much/no impact on colony development if done at the right time of year ie when there’s an abundant pollen supply. Plus it’s said that 1/3 of the pollen gets through the trap and into the hive anyway.
Not much chance of a production run Gavin I’m afraid what with the guitar building and other such nonsense! Sundance trap looks good - similar sort of idea to the OAC I think. Mesh in the right sizes seems to be readily available on eBay but it’s not cheap. Building these will not be inexpensive!
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Unfortunately not a plan but these were Dave Cushmans thoughts on the subject.
https://poly-hive.co.uk/recourses/be...llen-trapping/
Using duckduckgo instead of google can be valuable. As in: http://beesource.com/build-it-yourse...-bee-colonies/ and further possibilities: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=pollen+tra...v75-6_u&ia=web
PH
Dave's thoughts on anything always worthy of note PH. Shame that part of his site never got fully built.
Fortunately I remembered Donald Sims book has a decent illustration of the OAC pollen trap so I'm good to go. No hurry to build it though as it'll be a while before I need it. Currently -2 here and although we have an inch or two of snow on the ground it's nothing like those of you further south and west.
Yes and it's sad that his site is being slowly changed.
PH