Can someone give me the straight poop on when to what and how big it gets?
I made a bottom with just a 3/4" opening. I cut twice and it was still too short. I forgot to extend it past the bottom of the brood box. I was just looking at pictures from books and catalogs that showed bottom boards away from the rest of the hive. It didn't take me long to realize that something was wrong. I actually didn't get a good notion of the entrance reducer until I got a Mann Lake catalog Saturday that illustrates them from the front.
Anyway I have a hole about 3/8 x 2 in my version of a reducer. BTW the front of this used box is a bit worn out and allows a small entrance in a corner, now worn a bit more.
I digress. I know to use the small hole at first, then switch to the larger one. What next? Take it out and flip to the 3/8" side, that I don't have?
This is pitiful I know. I think it sounds worse than it is.
I was getting worried that there was robbery afoot, but I guess not. Top brood box had a few partially drawn frames a week ago. Today, all pretty much drawn, some brood and lots of necter. I put on a super! I got this nuc 6 weeks ago.
I have read so many books and so many posts here and I still know nothing. I'm lucky I still have bees.
Thanks for reading this far,
Matt
I made a bottom with just a 3/4" opening. I cut twice and it was still too short. I forgot to extend it past the bottom of the brood box. I was just looking at pictures from books and catalogs that showed bottom boards away from the rest of the hive. It didn't take me long to realize that something was wrong. I actually didn't get a good notion of the entrance reducer until I got a Mann Lake catalog Saturday that illustrates them from the front.
Anyway I have a hole about 3/8 x 2 in my version of a reducer. BTW the front of this used box is a bit worn out and allows a small entrance in a corner, now worn a bit more.
I digress. I know to use the small hole at first, then switch to the larger one. What next? Take it out and flip to the 3/8" side, that I don't have?
This is pitiful I know. I think it sounds worse than it is.
I was getting worried that there was robbery afoot, but I guess not. Top brood box had a few partially drawn frames a week ago. Today, all pretty much drawn, some brood and lots of necter. I put on a super! I got this nuc 6 weeks ago.
I have read so many books and so many posts here and I still know nothing. I'm lucky I still have bees.
Thanks for reading this far,
Matt