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OK, this is probably another case of a newbeek being over-protective, but thought I'd ask anyway....
On the weekend I put an empty super inbetween the stand and floor on my National as suggested here previously, to minimise the winter wind whistling up through the OMF. It occurred to me that at the same time I was raising the gap at the back of the hive, where the varroa board gets slid in and out, and presumably this will also be a bad source of letting in the wind (in my case the back is facing northwards on a fairly exposed position).
Does anyone bother with blocking this entrance, or am I treating my girls like little girls?
On the weekend I put an empty super inbetween the stand and floor on my National as suggested here previously, to minimise the winter wind whistling up through the OMF. It occurred to me that at the same time I was raising the gap at the back of the hive, where the varroa board gets slid in and out, and presumably this will also be a bad source of letting in the wind (in my case the back is facing northwards on a fairly exposed position).
Does anyone bother with blocking this entrance, or am I treating my girls like little girls?