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Mon, 24 Nov 2003 08:05:32 -0500
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Gentle Friends:

“When I built and ran a bit over 100 colonies in Farrar equipment, about 30
years ago,” Allen shares his experience, “I used five mesh hardware cloth
for excluders.”

The idea of using #5 hardware cloth as a queen excluder is a good one
overall and especially when used on a swarm/bee-retrieval box.  Staple the
cloth to the bottom of a decommissioned deep or a doubled-up medium box,
put the lid on, keep one or two on your truck bed year around like I do,
and you have one of the best swarm-retrieval/bee-removal boxes that is a
whole lot better than any cardboard box.

The hardware cloth can function as a Screened Bottom Board and *at the
same time* it will force the finicky queen to stay put, a labor-and money-
saving device.  (I hate when the queen plays hard to get when I have a
headache in the heat!)  When using the box to retrieve bees, one must use
the screened bottom as the entrance; hence, placing the box on top of any
wedge will further increase ventilation as well.  Keep that ventilation in
mind when moving the bees, too.

Yoon

A big gun (according to Bob) with the gentlest explosion.

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