> I personally am confused about the whole top entrance question--both 
> summer
> and winter.  Reports are often contradictory.  So much appears to depend
> upon local humidity and temperatures.
>

    I find the top entrance (inner Cover) useful for wintering and prior to 
placing honey supers on. Top entrance during honey gathering I find 
interferes with colony management, bees piling in over the rim of the top 
super. And there is a higher incidence of pollen being placed in honey 
supers with top entrance. Do bees wish to encourage the queen to move up or 
just anxious to get out quicker?

Alden M.
Hudson NH 

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