GingerNut
House Bee
- Joined
- Jun 1, 2009
- Messages
- 370
- Reaction score
- 0
- Location
- Waterlooville, Hampshire, UK
- Hive Type
- 14x12
- Number of Hives
- 3
Hi All,
A while back I said that I was going to put additional entrance holes in all my supers this year..................well I did...........and here are the first results.........
Each super has a 12mm hole drilled in the front centre.
Five hives used, each with only one super on.
One super - hole completely blocked by bees
Two supers - hole reduced in size, but still usable
Two supers - inside of hole tidied up by bees, but left original size
Although there are wasps around, no wasps were seen entering or leaving via these holes.
In only one hive were the bees using this hole, but not the foragers, it was mainly drones that wandered out and sat having a beer & and a fag on the front of the hive.
More to follow later, when I look again.
Yours Roy
A while back I said that I was going to put additional entrance holes in all my supers this year..................well I did...........and here are the first results.........
Each super has a 12mm hole drilled in the front centre.
Five hives used, each with only one super on.
One super - hole completely blocked by bees
Two supers - hole reduced in size, but still usable
Two supers - inside of hole tidied up by bees, but left original size
Although there are wasps around, no wasps were seen entering or leaving via these holes.
In only one hive were the bees using this hole, but not the foragers, it was mainly drones that wandered out and sat having a beer & and a fag on the front of the hive.
More to follow later, when I look again.
Yours Roy