Comb inside the roof peak

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@Honeyeater posted a great picture here of bees propolising up vented lid… if the bees don’t like it, they will modify it… they’ve been chewing through my hive reducer at times too!

Discoloured frames and degrading plastic

Hi there ABB, thanks for your post, much appreciated. To be clear, I’ve only been keeping bees for three or four years so pretty much a beginner, and in no way I want to pose here like an expert on bees. I am totally ignorant on the subject, but I try to keep an open mind. I am trying to avoid anthropomorphising bees and their behaviour, and want to understand how bees do their thing from those that conduct some sort of scientific research on the subject, and explain things the way I can under…