We don't get bees in the traps. The bait is meat and it attract yellow jackets, not honey bees. While we currently do not seem to suffer from hive collapse, I am an avid gardener and my friends keep honey bees--so I also would not do anything that would endanger them. The traps I am talking...
Our chickens gobble them up as fast as I shovel them out. We use the yellow, yellow-jacket traps that have bait in them--only we just put meat in as that works better for us than bait. Early in the morning the bees are either dead or "sleeping" and I just dump them out of the trap and hang the...