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Reduce Hive Entrance

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Honey Bees: How I prepare My Bees for Winter

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What happens here

Use an entrance reducer, typically a wooden or plastic block, to narrow the hive's main entrance. This reduces the area the bees need to defend, protecting them from pests like mice and robbing by other bees. It also helps the colony retain heat during colder months. The video shows reducing the entrance to a very small opening suitable for winter. Ensure it's not completely closed to allow for bee traffic and ventilation.

Goal: Install or adjust an entrance reducer to limit the hive opening, which helps maintain warmth and deters predators.

Tools and materials

  • Entrance Reducer

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sugar water flows that way next thing we're going to do is we're going to put in an entrance reducer to help discourage robbing I hope we're gonna put one in so we're going to reduce our entrance down later on will reduce our size of our entrance down to the smallest size so that we prevent robbing there's our entrance reducer and our bees are bringing in lots of pollen our goldenrod is in bloom right now so the bees are loaded down with pollen kind of cool to watch want to talk to you a little bit about

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