Entrance Reducer
$4.50
Product Code: ER-1100
The entrance reducer is essential to help the colony protect itself during critical moments. Prevents pillaging in autumn, and promotes brood development by limiting air currents in spring.
How to use the entrance reducer :
General principle: we put it on in spring and autumn, and we take it off in summer and winter.
On the other hand, it's all a question of judgment.
In winter, when temperatures are cold, the entrance reducer can be completely removed. This will allow the bees to remove the corpses from the hive. We want at all costs to prevent obstruction of the passage, which would create condensation inside the hive. Spring arrives, the bees start to make clean flights, that's it, we put the entrance reducer back at the smallest entrance. The queen will increase her egg laying and the brood will need all the heat possible. When temperatures rise, move to the larger entrance. In summer, it is hot, the bees happily collect nectar, there is a lot of come and go. The entrance reducer can be completely removed. In the fall, as soon as we remove the honey and install the feeder, we put the entrance reducer with the small entrance. Limitation of pillaging ** very important and increased protection against mice looking for a nest! Keep it like this until mid-December or whenever you feel like winter is here. By this time, the mice have already found another home.
Additional information
| Weight | 0.04 kg |
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| Dimensions | 37.50 × 2.00 × 2.00 cm |
