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BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. => Topic started by: rober on September 16, 2013, 10:53:49 am

Title: a robbing screen
Post by: rober on September 16, 2013, 10:53:49 am

anyone tried this?
http://colonialbeekeepers.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=98:how-to-make-a-robbing-screen&catid=24:education-information&Itemid=43 (http://colonialbeekeepers.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=98:how-to-make-a-robbing-screen&catid=24:education-information&Itemid=43)

Title: Re: a robbing screen
Post by: tefer2 on September 16, 2013, 12:12:44 pm

Let us know how they work out for you? My thinking is that it is to easy to just enter on the ends, but you never know till they're installed.

Title: Re: a robbing screen
Post by: Michael Bush on September 16, 2013, 04:58:14 pm

Quite a bit of the text in the linked powerpoint look to be cut and pasted from my web site... words I wrote 7 years ago...

http://www.bushfarms.com/beesrobbing.htm (http://www.bushfarms.com/beesrobbing.htm)

I think anything that blocks the direct path into the entrance confuses robbers.  It should probably work ok if it extends past on the ends...