>>This is one of the disadvantages of using oblong boxes. With square hives you can reduce the problem by having alternate boxes at right angles to the adjoining one.

I have not seen this - it commonly practices in the UK?  Sounds like a neat idea but I wonder if/how it affects the bees.

Waldemar 
 

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