Tim Sterrett wrote:
>
> Questions about using division board feeders:
>
>        They seem to be wider than one frame.  Do people use them as a tenth
> frame with nine other brood comb frames?
>
>         They are advertised as having "horizontal serrations" so bees can
> crawl up and down the sides.  Should I float a piece of wood in them as well?
>
 
Division board feeders are designed to take the place of 2 frames.  I
don't use them much in California, but when I was in Seattle I did.  I
floated thin flat strips of wood in them because the bees tended to fall
off the "horizontal serrations" into the syrup otherwise.
 
They work pretty well in colder climates.  They put 3/4 of a gallon of
syrup right in the brood chamber and the bees can take it up as fast as
they want to. If the weather is a bit too cool to open the hive to
refill them you can slide the inner cover over just enough to pour the
syrup without exposing the frames. (Always put the feeder against one
side of the box.)
 
Michael Reddell
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