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Reusing Beetle Blaster Traps
Fighting small hive beetles is a never ending battle, I use coroplast traps with Crisco and boric acid and beetle blaster traps filled with diatomaceous earth as my two main traps.
The coroplast traps are DIY and are basically free, but the beetle blasters are a commercial product that is designed to be used with vegetable oil.
I use them with the diatomatious earth because it is less messy (in my opinion)
While the traps are cheap and are designed to be one time use, I try not to waste and reuse them by spraying them out with a water hose, drying them off and then refilling with more DT.
I would be careful switching traps between colonies so that you do not spread foulbrood or other diseases, but since I have the one bee yard it is not that big of an issue for me.
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Source: http://www.tngun.com/reusing-beetle-blaster-traps/
