Having extracted a couple of supers of honey I had a few frames that needed drying off. I placed these on my home hive and tried to improvise an escape board. The theory was that if the bees movement between the hive and the wet supers was restricted they would 'rob' them and then leave them with almost no bees. Unfortunately I didn't put enough thought into it. It was fairly apparent it hadn't worked as soon as I cracked the supers away from the board.Since I was using a flat piece of board there was no bee space on the bottom. The holes I drilled were up against the frames of the lower super and therefore blocked. I'm guessing it was very hot in the supers the next day because when I checked on them that evening there was a large number of dead bees.
A quick rethink and a much larger drill bit might have done the trick, I'll have to check on them tomorrow.
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