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I appoligize for the off-topic question, but I know
there are several on this list who keep honeybees and I have a
question.
Here's the deal. I am considering enclosing
my blackberry and blueberry planting in hardware cloth. The purpose of the
hardware cloth is two-fold.
1. To keep the birds out.
2. To keep the Green June beetles
out.
It's a pretty big area to enclose, but I'm tired of
the pest pressure. However, if possible I'd
like to make the hardware cloth big enough to allow the honey bees to pollinate
the berries. I'm thinking the Green June beetles are about the size of a
queen bee, so my question is, does anyone know what is the size of the holes of
a queen excluder? Do queen excluders have round holes, or are they
square? I'm thinking 3/8" hardware cloth would keep a queen out and
let the workers pass through, but I'm not sure.
Mark
KS
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