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- From: "Jim Musson" <jim AT musson.org>
- To: "Zac Morris" <zac AT zacwolf.com>, <ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [ocba] Black Ants!
- Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2013 13:47:45 -0400
I had a problem with bugs and I put the legs of the hive in small plastic buckets and filled it with water. You can also use oil. They can’t get across. Is the hive sitting directly on the cinder blocks or does it have legs? Jim Musson From: ocba-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:ocba-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Zac Morris My third season of keeping bees. I remove the top cover today and it's FULL of big black ants! I had placed screen on my inner hive cover "port" so the ants were not down in the hive itself, just in the space between the inner cover and the rain cover. So I cleared them all off, inspected the hive (no ants inside it). Hive was doing very well! No ants in my other hives either. So I now have two questions: 1) Screen on the inner hive port: I've gotten two very different opinions on this practice.
2) Ants: I have my hive bottom setting on a cinder-block. I was considering two possible approaches.
THANKS! -Zac |
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[ocba] Black Ants!,
Zac Morris, 04/20/2013
- Re: [ocba] Black Ants!, Randall Austin, 04/20/2013
- Re: [ocba] Black Ants!, Jim Musson, 04/20/2013
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