I have one BeeMax (foam) open bottom hive
that was started new this Spring
with Carniolan bees.

My plan, for this year, is to concentrate on
getting the bees to produce as much drawn comb
as possible (up to 5 supers worth).

So far I've got two hive bodies and two supers
and a feeder stacked up.

I've been following the advice I read on
George's Pink Pages: feeding the bees
continuously with sugar water, which I put in a
top tank feeder made of plastic foam.

The top feeder is just about empty and I plan
to take it off on Saturday and clean out the
black mold that has formed.

I understand that this is the time of year when
I should put a packet of menthol in the top
of hive to prevent tracheal mites.

My question: can I put the filled tank feeder on
top of the menthol packet?  (Toward the opposite
side of the hive from the slot in the feeder
where the bees access the sugar water.)
Will the menthol vapors cause the bees to avoid
the sugar water?

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