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An observation and question:
I pulled the 4 deep frames of bees out of my observation hive 2 days ago and put them in a 10 frame deep box with a screened bottom board. There may have been 4 SHB in the observation hive. I watched it closely and there just sere not any beetles. Now fast forward 2 days after moving them to a new box and when I took the top off the bees probably had 20 beetles corralled up there. My other hives do not have many beetles in them as yet and they do not have SBB. My question is does a SBB allow the bettles so much better access as the bees can’t guard the whole bottom. And does this access allow the beetles to enter the hive in larger numbers? Further is it a problem?
I pulled the 4 deep frames of bees out of my observation hive 2 days ago and put them in a 10 frame deep box with a screened bottom board. There may have been 4 SHB in the observation hive. I watched it closely and there just sere not any beetles. Now fast forward 2 days after moving them to a new box and when I took the top off the bees probably had 20 beetles corralled up there. My other hives do not have many beetles in them as yet and they do not have SBB. My question is does a SBB allow the bettles so much better access as the bees can’t guard the whole bottom. And does this access allow the beetles to enter the hive in larger numbers? Further is it a problem?