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Re: Frame spacing revisited
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> The trick seems to be to keep a box of "stickies"
> (recently-extracted drawn combs) directly above the excluder, so that 
> the bees don't plug out the brood chamber with honey or pollen.
>

  I wondered on that comment as I  have learned that here in the Midwest
stickies will cause SHB infestations!   All supers are  robbed and let set
for 10/12 days to loose the attractiveness to SHB.   Wonder how the Aussies
handle that problem as I know they have SHB bad also?


Charles

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