From: ddhess@bellsouth.net
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 21:23:09 -0000
To: BiologicalBeekeeping@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: Russians: Queens, Drones, Swarms

--- In BiologicalBeekeeping@y..., "Helmut E. Garz" <hommes@o...>
wrote:
> otherwise the bees walk onto the bottomboard below
> and liable to pick up fallen mites !,defeating the whole purpose of the screen.

Mine is an open mesh floor, not just just a varroa board. There is
no bottom board under the screen on which the bees walk. My screen
thus doesn't have that requirement for excluding bees. I forget who
it was, but I was corresponding with someone from Bee-L who has used
1/4" mesh for quite some time without problems, and since that's what
I had convenient access to I thought I'd give it a try. :) Mites
that fall through my screen don't just sit on the floor and die of
loneliness, they plummet to their DEATH! (*evil cackle*)

-Don