I hope I am splitting hairs about this as I'm a rookie and didn't see any threads on this, but would gladly be redirected to one
I closed my bottom entrance at dark thirty tonight, as my new sundance II top mounted pollen trap just arrived. The past two days I had slowly reduced the bottom entrance, hoping to encourage bees to move out the top, and avoid mass confusion. The top cover (plywood) is shimmed with some old cedar shims I ripped down. I'm awful at reading a tape measure, and figure its about one third inch(1/4 plus two ticks):s. The bees can move in and out, but seem reluctant just yet. Is that big enough to get 'em moving out the top entrance? They have little choice come sunrise...
I closed my bottom entrance at dark thirty tonight, as my new sundance II top mounted pollen trap just arrived. The past two days I had slowly reduced the bottom entrance, hoping to encourage bees to move out the top, and avoid mass confusion. The top cover (plywood) is shimmed with some old cedar shims I ripped down. I'm awful at reading a tape measure, and figure its about one third inch(1/4 plus two ticks):s. The bees can move in and out, but seem reluctant just yet. Is that big enough to get 'em moving out the top entrance? They have little choice come sunrise...