Entrance blocks

[Floyd]

Some how have lost all 5 of my entrance blocks, which is a bit crazy as every is stored about 20 yards from the house!

Does everybody follow 120mm as per Dave Cushman.

Looking forward to learning from the wealth of experience here.

 

[itma]

B&Q do the 21mm sq section, but only in pine (which probably should be treated.)

461 length.

Small opening ... 8mm high and as wide as looks right to you. (The ones I made are about 4 fingers wide.) Maybe no bad thing to have different widths available, to relate to colony strength and external threat.

Somewhere I was told they should be stored under the roof ...

T's will have them in their Sale, for £1 rather than about £5.

 

[psafloyd]

Somewhere I was told they should be stored under the roof ...

That's a good idea. But they will also be an annoyance, I suppose.

 

[RogueDrone]

4" or 100m here pine is good enough as you say always lose them anyway. I do try the good practice of in the roof space, but now thinking of attaching them on a short chain to the floor. Only disadvantange is would not be able to use to actually block bees in if required at any time with same block.

 

[For want of a better word]

Thanks... spurred on with a thought where did I put them?

Under hives ?... then found one hive with a recently captured swarm, locked in as the front of the broodbox had fallen down over the front of the open mesh floor!
Bees bless 'em were struggling in and out of the minutest gap... then one got me under the right eye!

Bl**dy buckspinfasts!​

 

[meidel]

I favour the metal castellated mouseguards myself - one side is reduced with about 12 holes and the other over 20 I believe - I can leave them on all year as they don't knock the pollen off their legs or remove completely in a heavy flow

 

[Andy Duff]

I favour the metal castellated mouseguards myself - one side is reduced with about 12 holes and the other over 20 I believe - I can leave them on all year as they don't knock the pollen off their legs or remove completely in a heavy flow