Hello Charles,

<<How heavily do you apply Bee-Go to the fume boards?  How long to you
leave it on?>>

Bee-Go is a foul substance. It is worse as bad as skunk when trying to
get the smell
off of anything and that includes frames, and honey. I can smell it on
frames for
weeks. The fume pad itself must be kept down wind from any nose
especially your wife.
Trust me on this one!

I left the fume board outside over the winter in the direct path of a
dripping roof.
I could still smell the fumes the following spring. I could not smell
honey and
not think of the foul smell of Bee-go.

I will never use it again. There is a much better way especially if you
have only a
few supers. Use a triagle bee escape board. They work over night and
most of the time
they work very well. They are easy to make if you are handy with a table
saw.


<< Deos it matter if there are 3 to 5 supers?>>

Yes it does, I can only evacuate one super with the fumes and I must use
enough
to drive the bees down or some will stay and I will have to reapply the
liquid to
the fume pad and begin again. The bees hate it.

My guess is that the commercial folk who buy the stuff in drums have
much more
experience with the stuff and will be able to tell you much more about
their likes
and dislikes.

The bees will not object to the triangle escape board.

If your bee blower set up is correct you should have no problem with
nasty
bees. Most folks use a portable stand to place the super on and blow the
bees into
a cloth bee catcher. The bees simply fall on to the cloth and tumble to
the ground.
They return to the hive later without further incident.

I use duct tape to seal the cleared supers. I have entrance holes in
each super.
I tape them up and seal any crack with the tape. No bees in the super
means no bees
in the house. My wife likes that.


Ernie Gregoire

Grist Mill Apiray

Canaan NH.