Hi Alan:

I have built some open screened bottom boards in the last couple of years
that have no projecting horizontal ledge. The bees seem to function
perfectly well without it.

On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Alan Riach wrote:
> It did make me wonder if there is any point in having a projecting
> landing board, since the bees seem completely oblivious to the normal
> beekeeper concepts of "right way up" or "horizontal faces better than
> vertical"
                                                Best regards

                                                Donald Aitken