Dadant or Thorne Empire

[Murox]

............................. Handly calming.
you would not puff smoke into a dog’s face to calm it.
a fine water spray clears top bars beautifully.

Oddly enough many people do spray water into a dogs face whether as a deterrent or a calmative I'm not sure. I've given my inquisitive pooch the occasional light puff, he just backed off a bit like bees do. A fine misting of water certainly helps prevent bees from coming up and out of the frames. I have noticed that having the smoker going and just sitting next to the hive with smoke moving on the breeze does seem to reduce arial activity, or maybe thats just my imagination.

 

[Zaak OConan]

Better not to get any smoker.
puffing smoke into a colony panics the bees with threat of a forest fire. Handly calming.
you would not puff smoke into a dog’s face to calm it.
a fine water spray clears top bars beautifully.

Interesting, I'll try this on next week's inspection.