Two suggestions:

Wide entrances - reduced entrances cause bees to hang outside.

Drift smoke across them (gently!) before doing anything else.  I check the
apiary and smoke any with bees outside first, then shut in the rest, then
come back to the problem ones.  Usually they are all inside by then.

Peter Edwards
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