I attempted to place the slide in inspection board under my SBB and could not due to a decent sized cluster of bees hanging onto the SBB. When quite a few of them were knocked off they just crawled back under the SBB.
Any thoughts?
Thanks
All of my SBB are designed for oil trays so they are designed to keep the bees from getting to the inner screen.
Can you staple a window screen to the bottom and make a board to cover the opening in the back?
Jim
Ran the type of bottoms with a slide in tray for a while, the robbers are liking to find a easy way in, then some of the hive was hanging out by tray slide fighting them off, ended up with 10 or 20 dead bees a day in a couple hive's trays, yanked those suckers off & threw em on the burn pile, the trays come in useful for trimming wild comb tho.
Best way I've found to get clusters of bees from under a screened bottom board is lots and LOTS of smoke. Enough smoke and they will disperse.
Mine done that for a little while when I first got them last June. Have you had yours long?
Tray's should be in now for winter setup. If bottom box is cold they don't work down and store honey above. A bee brush break's off to many legs. Smoke works well and you'll have to smoke heavy to move them off. Just don't burn the wings off them. :shock:
I have the same problem. Hard to do a descent mite count when you have a bunch of bees crawling all over your pull out sampling boards.
Glen