Puzzled why I did not use this triangular bee escape sooner, but after many years in storage, I gave it a try. The picture shows the interesting triangular side of the bee escape, but remember that this side faces downwards. I added the bee escape beneath an 8 frame deep super with capped honey. Above the deep super, I closed the small vent notch of the inner cover.
After twenty four hours most of the bees cleared the deep super except for a small patch of bees beneath the inner cover hole and another small patch associated with drone brood. After removing the bee escape, I found that bee escape exit passages were not blocked by drones--which I heard was a problem with other bee escape designs.
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