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Allen Dick wrote (30 August):
>I realise that I would have to list at least 20 things if I were to mention
>them all, but my all-time favourite is the idea of stopping a robbing
>frenzy by taking off all the hive lids in the yard (assuming the robbing is
>not originating elsewhere).
Someone else responded:
> I looked in the archives and found a post by somebody who said he had
>been taught this but had never tried it. Has anybody here tried it? What
> happened?
Allen Dick replied: "It works for me."
I believe I was the person who first suggested the technique, as
taught by my revered beekeeper uncle, Clarence Wenner. We employed
that technique routinely while working a bee yard under less than
ideal conditions.
It seems to me that one could enhance that technique by removing
all covers in the yard and then quickly spray a little sugar solution
on the top bars and entrances of all hives. Pure sucrose solution
has no odor, so bees would concentrate more on a simulated nectar
flow than on robbing.
Maybe someone would want to try out that addition to the
cover-removal technique.
Adrian
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Adrian M. Wenner (805) 963-8508 (home office phone)
967 Garcia Road [log in to unmask]
Santa Barbara, CA 93103 www.beesource.com/pov/wenner/index.htm
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