****** Hive - Death in Correx

[waverider]

Just removed for winter the inspection board from my ****** Hive to find a good fifty or so dead bee's inside the correx board gaps. Only noticed due to the whiff of death when removing the board.

In the view of trying to reduce the risk of disease, surely this is a design flaw.

 

[Cazza]

That's interesting I have some correx trays but have never seen bees trapped in them. Any one else had this happen?

Could you seal the holes with sealant?
Cazza

 

[itma]

Just removed for winter the inspection board from my ****** Hive to find a good fifty or so dead bee's inside the correx board gaps. Only noticed due to the whiff of death when removing the board.

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Odd to have bees *in* the inspection board.
I wonder why?
Lots of people use correx for this, not heard of any major troubles.


And who the **** are ****** ?

 

[oliver90owner]

Time scale?

Just removed for winter - Seems like an operational error to me, as the thing appears to have been there some time.

 

[drstitson]

i get lots of earwings in the thin stuff - have fun blowing them out like a set of pan pipes.

perhaps you could insert the board sideways (it's square isn't it?)

 

[theboynelson]

What sort of thickness of corex are you using, all of mine consists of (ahem) discarded builders advertising notices, approx 4mm thick. You would have a job getting any of my bees into those gaps, the holes can only be 2-3mm.

 

[DanBee]

perhaps you could insert the board sideways

Steady on - the poor chap only asked for advice

 

[Goodwood]

Yep
Had this with one colony which came from a chimney swarm.
Blooming thing was stuffed full of bees
Knocked them out by tapping correx board hard on tree stump,
but many were dead
I ran some mastic down the side to seal up the holes.
Other colonies seem fine apart from one or two bees.
Correx is thick type supplied as part of Panes polyhive

 

[itma]

Steady on - the poor chap only asked for advice

 

[bee ginnner]

i had this too with a poly hive.a swarm was dropped in and the hive left till dark and when i picked it up i realised there was a couple of hundred maybe underneath, when i took the board out they were crawling out of the holes.
they didn't want to go in very well so i just put them all in the boot and let them organise themselves the next morning.

 

[Skyhook]

Steady on - the poor chap only asked for advice

 

[itma]

i had this too with a poly hive.a swarm was dropped in and the hive left till dark and when i picked it up i realised there was a couple of hundred maybe underneath, when i took the board out they were crawling out of the holes.
they didn't want to go in very well so i just put them all in the boot and let them organise themselves the next morning.

Riiiiiight.

When you gather a swarm direct into any 'hive' box and leave it for the stragglers to join the mass, it is entirely normal that some will follow the scent to the mesh floor rather than the entrance, given the chance!
Which might be why some would put in the inspection board ... I think it would be better to close off the board slot, so the bees don't get to the mesh, if the thing is sitting on the ground.
I don't think the correx is to blame.
Certainly, if you were trying anything like that, you ought to be checking underneath at the end of the day.


The first time I used the Pane polynuc for this task, I had quite a few bees on the underside of the mesh floor... which I only discovered when I picked the thing up, having blocked the entrance and relaxed!
Subsequently I've used a strip of sponge foam under the entrance, between box and ground, and ... almost none found the mesh! But its something I try to check early enough in the evening for brushed-off bees to have a second chance to discover the proper entrance!

 

[Luminos]

Steady on - the poor chap only asked for advice

 

[waverider]

Inspection board was only present during the apiguard phase. I dont recall having the board out for a long enough period of time for the bee's to crawl in.


Odd as the board is a tight fit when inserted. Maybe on one occasion i must have inserted it incorrectly. Anyhow, i have binned it as the smell of death was rather putrid.

 

[Teemore]

Steady on - the poor chap only asked for advice

There is a reason I like this forum!!

 

[Dusty Rhodes]

There is a reason I like this forum!!

..... though there is a very dark side to it:

Odd as the board is a tight fit when inserted. Maybe on one occasion i must have inserted it incorrectly. Anyhow, i have binned it as the smell of death was rather putrid.

Dusty.

 

[beebreeder]

Some of the DIY chains do a moulded channel the right width to press over the open edges of correx, if you are keen you could narrow the sheet by the thickness of the channel and the board would be stiffened in the process, I have never done this but have seen edged correx in another use