Porter bee escapes

[Charley]

I am three years into beekeeping and have discovered, for the first time this morning, that porter bee escapes slide apart for cleaning! Now like new after a good soak in washing soda solution and a scrub.

 

[Davelin]

Throw them in the bin and get rhombus escapes.

 

[Gilberdyke John]

Throw them in the bin and get rhombus escapes.

+1

 

[REDWOOD]

Horrid things,

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Throw them in the bin and get rhombus escapes.

Mr Porter should have stuck to making watches

 

[snelgrove]

Must be honest the times when a super is completely empty of bees when using porter escapes is rare, nearly always bees left in and have to be brushed off.

 

[Arfermo]

Throw them in the bin and get rhombus escapes.

Or do without anything and just brush/shake bees off frames one by one as necessary.

 

[itma]

Throw them in the bin and get rhombus escapes.

And too.

Just need to have a bit of eke-space headroom above the frame topbars, under a Rhombus, for it to work properly. And then it works brilliantly, without any fussy adjustment of bits of bendy metal.

 

[Eyeman]

Guys

I've used them for 10+ years with a 1/4 tonne + of honey each year.
I don't have s problem.
Alec

 

[TOBY-3652]

Throw them in the bin and get rhombus escapes.

this is exacly what I did this year and am sooo pleased I did

 

[Heather]

Bees that are propolis fanatics can seal themselves in if you are using as bee escapes. I always bin them. Rhombus much better and work fast too.