under floor entrance with solid floor

[yeogi75]

three new under floor entrances but with soil floors
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[REDWOOD]

Good job

 

[Erichalfbee]

They look great.
Do you think solid floors are a wasp deterrent? Like....the wasps won't smell the honey as easily?

 

[yeogi75]

could be one reason the smell of the hive vapour filtering out of the open floor maybe,
but the reason is my farther ran solid floors which he tried open floors and had poor results and swopped back to solid floors, which when I started keeping bees I ran his open mesh floors and soon swopped over to solid floors, now im making under floor solid floors, I don't seem to get along with open mesh floors.

 

[Erichalfbee]

I might try a solid floor next season

 

[Swarm]

Very nice.

 

[yeogi75]

well think about it if your got a fully open entrance and a mesh floor, the air will push out a plume of hive smell for the wasps to follow from a good distance away, that's just my thinking after stopping mass attack on my hives and mating nucs , wiped out four mating nucs and two newly put into hives , which of course are week and put wasp bane traps to stop them which they have stopped the onslaught, maybe not for everyone but works for me.

 

[linoleum bonypart]

I might try a solid floor next season

If you can persuade Stan to make it mwahahaha

 

[Hachi]

I agree. I've gone back to solid floors and my results have improved visibly.

 

[victor meldrew]

I might try a solid floor next season

My under floor entranced floors are open meshed but have properly fitted drawers for inspection duties plus allowing me to vape below the mesh .
I over Winter with the drawers in .
Best of all worlds ! [emoji6]


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[SDM]

If I was making underfloor entrances with a solid floor I'd put the entrance in the centre of the hive.

 

[victor meldrew]

If I was making underfloor entrances with a solid floor I'd put the entrance in the centre of the hive.

Could you elaborate?


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[Erichalfbee]

I should imagine he means the entrance should be half way along the floor not near the front

 

[victor meldrew]

I should imagine he means the entrance should be half way along the floor not near the front

Got that, I was meaning the rationale?


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[SDM]

Similar rational to the setback of the jbm type.
Bees enter the hive centrally ie. More bees nearerto their goal, wasps etc are forced to enter at the most heavily populated areas having navigated a longer tunnel.

 

[yeogi75]

you can adapt it to having the entrance exit come out at the rear which will give even a longer tunnel.