A few beehive repairs

Last Spring I ended up doing far more beehive repairs than I ever thought I would need to, so there’s actually very little to fix for this season.

The most important item is to add a rim to a couple of underfloor entrances in preparation for being able to do oxalic acid vapes through the rim, so I ripped some scrap timber down to 20mm square and have started fixing those in place using PU adhesive, with a couple of stainless screws that I happened to have left over from taking some other stuff apart.

After that I need to make a few repairs to wax moth damage in some poly hives where the larvae have eaten into the polystyrene. I really have no idea why they find that so tasty.

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