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    Thanks for that Fatshark. If you remove the mesh from the poly feeder that will leave room for small blocks of candy to sit right on top of the frames without butchering it. It's nice to know your splits/nucs have done well, we can't afford to lose any up here.
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    A general point that seems not to widely understood let alone known is that when B. Mobus did his research into ventilation in the floors it was always coupled with insulation above the CB. And the CB's were solid and he emphasised that strongly.

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    The latest nuc (from the BS Honeybee guys) is almost here:

    https://www.bshoneybees.co.uk/polynuc

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    That looks promising. Plenty of space above the top bars - so, none of all that squashing of bees as in all the other polyhive nucs.
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    All of them?

    Mine have top bee space.

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    A National, PH? Which one?
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    Paynes poly nucs are top bee space.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mellifera Crofter View Post
    A National, PH? Which one?
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    Not sure what you mean Kitta. The Paynes ones are top bee space...have hundreds of them.20170815_111059.jpg

    Bees walking about perfectly happy under the plastic cover board. You don't want it deeper than that as they will make a real horses derriere of brace comb. Not worth sacrificing a space that rarely needs scraping for the occasional convenience of it being a candy space. ( Have NEVER needed to give one of these candy/fondant anyway.)

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    Sorry, C4U and Steve. My mistake. All the nucs have bee-squashing problems - but with the Paynes it is that inside wall rather than the tops of the frames. I forgot and lumped them all together! It's really difficult or almost impossible to get that inside wall cleared of bees when using a feeder or an extra brood box.

    The Everynuc is almost ok.
    Kitta

    PS: Actually, I don't have a top feeder for the Paynes poly nuc, so I don't know how that fits - but there is a problem when adding the top brood box.
    K
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    My Swienty nucs are top bees pace as they are modded Langstroths.

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