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Offline hjon71

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Re: Entrance Hole Drilled In Deeps
« Reply #20 on: March 21, 2014, 05:36:36 pm »
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Lots of beeks use 'both' top and bottom entrances, myself included. Cutting a small (1/4" x 2") notch in your inner covers, placed notch side down creates a fine top entrance.

I tried this but found SHB liked to hide between the inner cover and telescoping top. Because the space between was too small for the bees to enter. I could have shimmed it I suppose but I didn't think of that at the time.
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Re: Entrance Hole Drilled In Deeps
« Reply #21 on: March 22, 2014, 12:11:44 am »
What about robbing with all those holes in the boxes?
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Offline Michael Bush

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Re: Entrance Hole Drilled In Deeps
« Reply #22 on: March 22, 2014, 11:08:29 am »
>What about robbing with all those holes in the boxes?

In my experience usually the bees guard them, but sometimes they forget one and a weak hive starts getting robbed by an entrance they seem to have forgotten...
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