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Offline malabarchillin

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bee escape with fume board ?
« on: January 01, 2008, 02:31:31 pm »
If I use a fume board on top do I still need to put a bee escape under the super ?
We are talking about only 3 hives so I hoped that I would monitor them close enough
that they would not go back up before I pulled the supers.
Thanks
Mike

Offline rdy-b

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Re: bee escape with fume board ?
« Reply #1 on: January 01, 2008, 02:42:25 pm »
Dont worry they wont sometimes i think they get kind of dazed by the fumes -they will hang out on the outside of the boxes for sometime -of course you know that it needs to be warm outside to work-RDY-B

Offline Michael Bush

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Re: bee escape with fume board ?
« Reply #2 on: January 01, 2008, 04:51:48 pm »
>If I use a fume board on top do I still need to put a bee escape under the super ?

If you use a fume board on top be SURE you DO NOT use a bee escape under it.  That would be a very bad idea.  It's an either or.  If you do both the fumes will cause the bees to want to do a mass exodus and the bee escape will cause a major traffic jam.


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