ALDEN MARSHALL wrote:
>     I think on way to verify this would be to run an experiment with solid against screen bottoms, using drone brood removal in both sets. 

You can do it. I have run my own trials but to compare overwintering in 
Maine with open or closed screen bottoms.So it is not rocket 
science.(Closed works better but bees can make it through a Maine winter 
with open screens.I can't.)

Truth is, most of what I have seen shows that screened bottoms only 
delay the inevitable. You will also find that most who have success with 
them and credit the screens also treat, which is the real reason for low 
mite loads.I do use screens but closed below them so they act like a 
solid bottom. The best of both worlds.

If the Fox pre-game show was not so lame I would never have turned on my 
computer.Anyway, Aaron, go the other guys.

Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine

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