All of a sudden it’s time to get serious about this. I built most of the bait hives in February. April and May are the best months on the Oregon Coast. I don’t want to start too late because I’ll be advised to feed the bees and I DON’T want to do that.
This one is not as high as I would like, but it’s a start. I’m using old brood comb from last year, some melted pine sap, and Lemon Grass Oil. I’ll check it in a week and daub some more LGO on the outside of the hive.
I used a ladder with this one and got a little higher. This one has top bars that fit a Warre Hive. It’s located within walking distance of my house so I can check on it more often. It’s located near a creek in a stand of firs and cedars.
Adventures in Natural Beekeeping 
How many frames or bars do you have in your bait hive? I have a 5 frame but no luck catching anything. Also my TBH and Lang are empty, but set up with LGO. I don’t use comb. I lost my hives to wax moths a year or so ago.
At first I set up the bait box with bars to fit my Kenyan Top Bar hive (about 17.5 inches). The bait box to be 40 liters in size. (I had to get a converter app for my ipod.) Thomas Seeley says 40 liters (2441 cubic inches) is the best size with an opening at about 1.5 to 2 inches. When I made the move to go with a Warre hive, I made the other dimension the size of the Warre (about 12.5 inches) 12.5 x 17.5 = 218.75 x 11.25 = 2461 cu. in. using 1×12″s for the sides. The mistake I made, which led to the 25 stings was that I didn’t fill up the space with bars and the bars were set over the 3/8″ bee space. The bees ended up attaching some of the comb to the lid of the box. So when I unscrewed the lid, I tore some comb and…well…you can imagine. 🙂