Yesterday and today I made a 'swarm catcher' box. That is a special type of beehive used to attract swarms of wild bees. It is basically a normal beehive, but much smaller, about 1 foot in square diameter (does that make sense?) and a bit under two feet long.
In theory, when bees swarm, as they normally do once or twice a year, they go about looking for a nice place to live, like a hollow tree. So beekeepers make boxes that look like nice hollow trees and bait them with old honeycomb. Scout bees find it, and go back to the swarm to let them know. Once they move in and start making new comb, the beekeeper just transfers the whole lot into a regular beehive. A swarm of bees is worth about $150 bucks cash, which would pay me back for what I have invested already in this endeavor with keeping bees. Waiting for honey to do the payback will take a long time, but I have gotten about 3-4 pounds of raw, organic honey already.