The crown board/inner cover has a hole in it for a feeder etc. If you don’t use a hive mat, bees can go through the hole up into the roof. I always cover the hole in my hives, but some people like to leave it open as an early indicator of overcrowding if the bees start building in the roof. My bees are always challenging, and they just like to build up there anyway, given half a chance, so I block it off.
@Trevor1 sidenote all flowhives are langroth based
if you wanting comb you can let tham build in the roof thow may be messy to remove the comb from the roof if you want comb but not the headake you could use a someting like this for tham to build comb on https://www.bigw.com.au/product/brilliant-basics-clear-storage-container-36l/p/682346
Damn… what a great idea. So just place that container directly over the uncovered access hole?
yes put it over the hole but make shure that you leve a small gapshould the bees whent to get bee feed but apart from that thats the genral idear https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Wj9mhgBmw4&t=2422s
Yep. Great info. I’ll be doing that for sure!!!