"John R. Cunningham" How do others get the bees out of the honey house?

At this time of year, after the honey harvest, I cover up everything within
the honey room and then try to PREVENT any bees inside from leaving.  They
are mostly robbers (assuming supers were cleared efficiently), a general
nuisance, no benefit to the apiary overall if they are allowed to return,
and likely to INCREASE  the nuisance if allowed to escape. The trapped bees
die on the windows, quicker if they cannot feed inside the room due to
efficient covering up.

But at the scale of only 20 hives I do not have the problem of a continuous
flow of supers into and out of the room.

Robin Dartington

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