What is the bee escape, well it isn't the name of a new Ford SUV, it lets the bees leave the honey super and helps prevent them from returning and consuming all the honey. It is used when the honey super is full and you want to harvest the honey, and that is hard to do when it's full of bees. This little board goes between the brood chamber and the honey super and in the evening the bees will go down the hole, make there way through to the end of the triangles and out into the brood chamber. It is only on there for 24 - 48 hours, any longer and they will figure out how to get back in. The space is only 3/8 inch wide as is the end at the end of the triangle and the wire is 1/8 inch (#8 gauge) squares. after that off comes the super, the escape board and another super put in place to make more honey. For us this won't happen until next year and maybe some in the spring.
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| The bee escape board. |
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| Three small exits only. |
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