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Subject:	Re: Round holes on brood boxes
From:	allen <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:06:39 -0600
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>>"...Normally, when I use supers, which do not have holes"

>I have seen that many beeks are making holes on honey supers.
>The idea is that the foraging bees can access frames without going
>through the hole hive.  What is your opinion on that?

I agree with Joe about holes in supers.  Seems to me that Farrar liked them, 
though, at least in brood chambers.

We've discussed some of the other drawbacks of upper summer entrances in the 
archives as well.

Most beekeepers who have winter entrances above the broods close them in 
summer. 

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