Poly hive musings.

[Welsh lady bee]

I like the Abelo hives and find the extra entrances very useful
I have used them for splits and also find the bees use the entrances in the suppers to bring honey in
I use the white entrance blocks side on to reduce the gap in the boxes if I need to
Also had the other makes of national poly but Abelo hives have got it spot on as far as I'm concerned

I have been very pleased with my Abelo hive - had it for a year and the swarm I overwintered in it did fine (actually as did my WBC hives). However, this summer
I am unable to remove the deep roof to get at the super in order to take off honey. I can only think the roof is heavily propolised onto the super. Does anyone have an idea how I can get the roof off without damaging it?