> > > 5. I have n e v e r  used an entrance reducer in
> > >   35 consecutive years of beekeeping.
> >
> > Around here, yellowjackets would do a real number on such a hive.
> >
> > -Mike
> >
>   REPLY: Tres` interessant. But where is "around here?" In the Free
>   State?  Jack the B-man
 
Oops, "around here" is central Massachusetts, USA, Planet Earth, Sol,
Milky Way.  The yellowjackets were worse around a hive at a friend's house,
Albany New York area.
 
-Mike