Hi Ed, I don’t use a clearer board. I shake the bees but hear me out. I take the frames out, then lean them up against the back of the hive with bees attached. Then I close the hive up. You can wait about 30 minutes, during that time a lot of bees will have returned to the hive. All you do then is shake the rest of the bees in front of the entrance, one frame at a time. The bees go straight into the hive. Because the roof is back on, no bees are going to come back up at ya. I started doing this 30 years ago & it works every time.
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