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- Mar 31, 2019
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- Location
- South Yorkshire
- Hive Type
- TBH
- Number of Hives
- 3
Last year I followed the suggestion to AS by rotating my TBH 180deg. The idea being the flying bees strip themselves away in the same way they d when the brood box is moved to one side in a vertical hove AS. But then came the next step of moving the brood box to the other side - no TBH equivalent.
Spent the winter pondering and came up with this (well it was lockdown, see attached) - basically a bee escape type device allows flyers to leave but prevents return. A tunnel then directs these returners to the old queen AS nuc allowing as much flyer stripping as thought necessary/prudent without further box movements.
Has anyone tried something similar. Thoughts/feedback/clarifications please.
Was going to jury-rig something up this spring to try it - but please save me a job if it's clearly nonsense and wont work.
Presumably, although less need so to do, something similar could be done with a vertical hive and a second brood box above supers?
Spent the winter pondering and came up with this (well it was lockdown, see attached) - basically a bee escape type device allows flyers to leave but prevents return. A tunnel then directs these returners to the old queen AS nuc allowing as much flyer stripping as thought necessary/prudent without further box movements.
Has anyone tried something similar. Thoughts/feedback/clarifications please.
Was going to jury-rig something up this spring to try it - but please save me a job if it's clearly nonsense and wont work.
Presumably, although less need so to do, something similar could be done with a vertical hive and a second brood box above supers?