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dickbowyer

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Some hives and a few nucs
Whilst walking today on holiday in Tuscany, came across this apiary on a forest track. Interestingly, all the entrances had mose guards - is this standard european practice?
 
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Nice little porches and wooden boxes (i.e. not poly)?
 
Note the positioning and the marking of the hives, mini nucers please note....

PH
 
I would think they are not to keep mice out. Perhaps just the way they reduce hive entrance down.

Dadant-Blatt hives if anyone is wondering.
 
Close up, the entrance strips are very similar to mouse guards you can buy from Thornes
 
They may well be the 5mm Asian hornet guards that are now available, they don't stop the attacks but at least stop the beasties getting into the hive.:willy_nilly:
 
They may well be the 5mm Asian hornet guards that are now available, they don't stop the attacks but at least stop the beasties getting into the hive.:willy_nilly:

That sends a shiver down the spine of many uk beekeepers..

Whats the grill size of a queen excluder ?
 

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