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Re: open bottom boards
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allen dick <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 10 Apr 2003 07:34:35 -0600
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> Very short NO in my opinion! I have been using open mesh flours for
> more than twenty years now, and I have the same troubles like every
> one else with Varroa. Open mesh flours is in my opinion only for
> ventilation.

I wonder, Jorn, if you use screen floors that are same size as the
bottom of the brood box or if you use the smaller screens -- 10 cm x 10
cm or so -- that are poplular in northern europe?

What size are your screens and what mesh do you use?

allen
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