Praise where praise is due... Miillet's tunnel entrance.

[Nordicul]

Praise where praise is due.... Millet's tunnel entrance.

Hi All.

I have had about a month now of constant wasp attacks on my hives. All of which have been totally thwarted because of Millet's tunnel entrance design.....I love watching the yellow and black blighters try out the entrance tunnel defences then quickly turn tail and run for it. Ha Ha

Anyone who is troubled by wasps should look up the post on tunnel entrances by Millet....sorry I've not yet figured how to link to it.... Someone will ...it was in the thread "Robbing help please" by Mintmoth. 9th June 2017.

Biggest issue for me was putting the new tunnel entrance block to the hive, and discovering very quickly that the girls didn't like their front door being messed with!!!!!

Millet thanks.

 

[Hachi]

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[ShinySideUp]

Praise where praise is due.... Millet's tunnel entrance.

Hi All.

I have had about a month now of constant wasp attacks on my hives. All of which have been totally thwarted because of Millet's tunnel entrance design.....I love watching the yellow and black blighters try out the entrance tunnel defences then quickly turn tail and run for it. Ha Ha

Anyone who is troubled by wasps should look up the post on tunnel entrances by Millet....sorry I've not yet figured how to link to it.... Someone will ...it was in the thread "Robbing help please" by Mintmoth. 9th June 2017.

Biggest issue for me was putting the new tunnel entrance block to the hive, and discovering very quickly that the girls didn't like their front door being messed with!!!!!

Millet thanks.

I too have used the design and while very effective a determined wasp will get in, I have seen it. I reduced the remodelled entrance to three bee spaces and that seems to have done the trick.

On a similar note, I found an ally in the garden today; a garden spider caught a wasp in it's web and had it trussed and paralysed within two minutes. It's a hard life in the wild.

 

[Millet]

Praise where praise is due.... Millet's tunnel entrance.

Hi All.

I have had about a month now of constant wasp attacks on my hives. All of which have been totally thwarted because of Millet's tunnel entrance design.....I love watching the yellow and black blighters try out the entrance tunnel defences then quickly turn tail and run for it. Ha Ha

Anyone who is troubled by wasps should look up the post on tunnel entrances by Millet....sorry I've not yet figured how to link to it.... Someone will ...it was in the thread "Robbing help please" by Mintmoth. 9th June 2017.

Biggest issue for me was putting the new tunnel entrance block to the hive, and discovering very quickly that the girls didn't like their front door being messed with!!!!!

Millet thanks.

Thank you very much.. with the odd modification (thanks to DereckM they can be pretty safe) not that they need to be..

 

[sean-a]

Praise where praise is due.... Millet's tunnel entrance.


Anyone who is troubled by wasps should look up the post on tunnel entrances by Millet....sorry I've not yet figured how to link to it.... Someone will ...it was in the thread "Robbing help please" by Mintmoth. 9th June 2017.

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https://beekeepingforum.co.uk/archive/index.php/t-39947.html

 

[Nordicul]

Thanks Sean-a

I knew there were wise ones out there....but exactly how did you do that?

 

[mintmoth]

What mystifies me is that as bees in the wild choose homes with small entrances, why is the man-made beehive designed with such a wide entrance? Feral colonies can build up huge nests with enormous numbers of bees coming and going, but still cope perfectly well with an entrance just a few millimetres across, so which of our beekeeping forefathers decided 16" x 3/4" would be a perfect sized entrance?

 

[Beefriendly]

Feral colonies can build up huge nests with enormous numbers of bees coming and going, but still cope perfectly well with an entrance just a few millimetres across, so which of our beekeeping forefathers decided 16" x 3/4" would be a perfect sized entrance?

Feral bees rarely built "huge" nest's mintmoth. Or at least by my definition of huge. Big, man managed, colonies need wide entrances so there is no congestion between outgoers and incomers during times of high nectar flows.
It's called time and motion.
When you see bees queued to get into a hive it's not working efficiently.

 

[Curly green fingers]

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I've been having the same problems.

 

[Gilberdyke John]

Feral bees rarely built "huge" nest's mintmoth. Or at least by my definition of huge. Big, man managed, colonies need wide entrances so there is no congestion between outgoers and incomers during times of high nectar flows.
It's called time and motion.
When you see bees queued to get into a hive it's not working efficiently.

My 14x12 hive floors are built with non removable entrance restrictors. This provides a slot 8mm high and 75mm wide.
The bees have no problem in entering and leaving. More importantly the guard bees patrolling the landing board are able to effectively defend the entrance.