>Great for cleansing flights are the Imirie Shims sold by Brushy Mountain Bee
>Farm. You put one in between the bottom supers in the good weather to save
>the bees time from having to crawl down thru the brood chamber to get
>outside. In the winter you move it up on top of your top super (under the
>inner cover) for ventilation. It also provides for winter cleansing flights
>on a nice day.
>
>You really can easily make them yourself. They are simply four pieces of wood
>3/4" square fitted together with an entrance cut into the front piece about
>the size of your smallest entrance in a winter reducer. Great also for
>releasing moisture in the winter. Just be sure to push the top cover as far
>forward as it will go to give your girls some exit room.
>
>Al Needham
 
Won't they muck up the bee space,though? The bees will fill the space up
with comb?
 
Bruce :)
 
Bruce Laidlaw
Literacy Teacher & Beekeeper
East Sydney Campus
Sydney Institute of Technology
Australia 2010
http://pip.com.au/~abestuds