Position of bait boxes

[Galaxy55]

Just interested to know opinions on positioning bait boxes - is there a best place? direction? height? when to put them up?

Going to use old brood comb in the box as bait.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Fifteen feet up, Southerly facing,sheltered but in sunlight. according to Seeley.

 

[dan3008]

would i be in trouble for simply saying "outside"? lol

In all seriousness, ask something like that and everyones answer will be diffrent.

A friend of mine used to keep his bait box's up in the roof space of his barn. Apparently, if he didn't have the bait box up there, and a swarm came past, he invariably ended up with bee's in the rafters... on the other hand, he had 15 hives that he was keeping, and another 5 colonies he was selling last year lol

 

[linoleum bonypart]

A swarm flew over a friends head last yr while sge was out in the horse paddocks and headed into a wood we could hear them but couldn't find them so I'm going to fasten a couple of bait hives to tree trunks at the edge of the wood facing south towards the guys apiary a mile away

 

[MerryBee]

IMHO you cant do better than the advice from Tom Seeley here

 

[linoleum bonypart]

Many thanks for that

 

[Galaxy55]

Thanks for the link to Tom Seeley and for your replies - first time I have tried this.

 

[Karsal]

Doesn't seem to a problem here in Florida. I'm on holiday in a Disney resort and along the side or the roads to Magic Kingdom there are five bait hives five foot up from the ground at 500 yard intervals approx. They are tagged with red or white tags. May have a walk and have a look at one if my wife will let me!
Lucky beggars here it's in the high seventies temperature. Wall to wall sunshine!!

 

[linoleum bonypart]

Wall to wall sunshine here too !!

 

[BeeJayBee]

Wall to wall sunshine here too !!

^^^ 10:44 pm and it's still wall to wall sunshine?

It's dark here, with a nice shiny moon, and a touch of frost in the air.