From: Pav <bobhog@pin.co.nz>
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 12:31:11 +1200
To: <BiologicalBeekeeping@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: Russians: Queens, Drones, Swarms

At 12/06/01 18:13:00, Don wrote:

>Their tendancy to hang out and cluster shows up as a
>cluster of bees extending through and below my mesh floor in one of
>the hives (I just hope they don't build comb through it).

>From this i deduce that the mesh on your floors is large enough to allow bees
>through, giving no protection from robbing by wasps or other bees.

Aside from mouse protection, i wonder why you have mesh at all? Completely open
floor would not have an issue with comb being built through it, indeed i know of one
person using open floors who uses such comb building as an indicator (without needing to touch the hive at all to see) that he needs to provide more room.

-Pav, reckons John Sewell will one day be trying open floors as a swarm prevention
measure.