Hello Flow family. I have a question for all of you. I have a FH2 and want to put a wooden entrance reducer on it. Will that require special measurements to do so? Does anyone have any information for me on how to fit a wooden entrance reducer on a FH2.
P.S. I’m not speaking about the new addition reducer for the FH2+. Thank you all. Brad
Buy a normal one. Drill a hole either end and either pin or screw it onto the brood box.
I use foam
So are you saying that a wooden entrance reducer won’t say on a FH2 like they do on normal langstroth hives? Do you mind sharing an image? Thank you for the comment.
@Brad_Oliphant Brad I made one myself, plained a slope on the top of it, and the cut it to length, then I just gently tapped it firmly into place like a wedge (best done at night when the bees are at rest. It hasn’t given me any problems. Also put the reducing piece of timber in the middle, as it makes it easier for the bees to circulate the air around inside the hive.
I’ve included a photo of mine.
I truly appreciate this. It’s very helpful. So your saying, because of the metal lip at the entrance, the entrance reducer has to be sloped and cut to fit? No problem. I had someone come forth with another great idea on Youtube. The reason I asked this is because where you have your entrance reducer, I plan on attaching The Guardian (beetle guard.) And in the small openings on the left and right, I will fold some copper wire into to help ventilate. The Guardian beekeepers are swearing by that it will keep 100% of SHBs out of the hive. Thanks again my friend. Grateful. Brad @ the Gayatri Apiary
@Brad_Oliphant, Brad, don’t seem to have a SHB problem here, I have an internal SHB trap, and over a 4 month period have only found less than 10 shb in it. I also have Diatomaceous Earth (DE) in the bottom plastic tray, and nothing much to see in it either. While having the plug out of the roof tray one day, to setup a sugar syrup container over it an Australian bush cockroach fell in through the hole, a few minutes later I saw 3 bees escorting it out through the entrance, it was so funny.
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@Buzzing-bees Trevor, just read the last sentence of your post, OMG I can just picture the 3 bees booting the cochroach fair up the butt - PMSL 
@KSJ Yeah Karen, when I saw it happy, I nearly did too. Those 3 little bees dragging that huge Aussie cockroach out, was just so funny. They also handle robbing bees just as well TOO, I’ll have to put up a small sign on the bee hive, “no cockroaches or robbing bees allowed, eviction guaranteed”.
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@Buzzing-bees Trevor, you will have to do that and then post a picture of the hive with the sign above the entrance…
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