30 drops per recipe - so 1 cube of beeswax, 1/4 cup olive oil, 20 -30 drops of lemon grass oil. I sped up the video, but I shook 30X3 drops of lemongrass oil into my tripled recipe of the lure.
And if it works and you get free bees, come back here and let me know. A swarm moved into my top bar hive the day I made the video and another empty hive is being explored right now in my yard.
@@lindatsbees nice! It's a little too early here in Pennsylvania. But I've been catching free bees for years. Not with this exact lure yet. If I get around to making it this way, I'll check back.
Glad it was helpful! A friend of mine and I gave a talk last night on how to catch a swarm. We gave a tube of swarm lure to each person in attendance. Hope they will catch swarms.
There's a video on the Catching a Swarm playlist that shows you how. You rub some around the hole in the inner cover, some on the tops of a few (2 or 3) frames in the hive and some on the upper edge of the hive entrance.
Thank you for the swarm lure recipe, i will give it a try, if you have a scale could you weigh your cube of beeswax in grams? That would make the recipe for everyone more precise because we have to guess the size and weight of your cube, thank you.
