A new device for catching swarms is getting great reviews at the moment. It's a tube that you make up on the spot from sections of gutter-downpipe with a wider piece at the top and a cut-off leg from nylon tights attached at the bottom end. Attached to the top end is also a pump-operated water sprayer (locked in on-position) to wet the swarm before you scoop it into the pipe. The swarm just comes down the shute in one big rush.

Last important detail is a knot, tied a few inches above the end of the nylon, that's where you can grab it for emptying the swarm into your box after taking off all but the last section of drainpipe (just pour it into the box).

It's inventor, Henry Seifert, wants it to be known as "Seifertsches Schwarmfangrohr".

I'll post pictures as soon as I get a chance to take some. Unfortunately swarms are rather rare up here, so I have not tried this myself yet.

Who'll be the first to try it here?
Doris