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I'm a beginner. Determining entrance size and reducing top entrances is difficult.
There are many great devices for reducing bottom entrances. Top entrances have many advantages, but seem more difficult to reduce. I would like to either have tiny bottom entrances or not have them. My top entrances are in my inner covers.
I have reduced top entrances with a putty I made from wax and coconut/olive oil. Unlike a lot of reducers, these ones don't get stuck, break, and fall out much.
Do you do any of these?
There are many great devices for reducing bottom entrances. Top entrances have many advantages, but seem more difficult to reduce. I would like to either have tiny bottom entrances or not have them. My top entrances are in my inner covers.
I have reduced top entrances with a putty I made from wax and coconut/olive oil. Unlike a lot of reducers, these ones don't get stuck, break, and fall out much.
Do you do any of these?
- mold entrances out of wax
- use reducers that the bees can modify
- use a cheap, disposable, or recyclable reducer material
- simpler
- The rim is on one side.
- no hole in the middle
- The entrance is about 2 or 3 inches long.