Hi All,
While cleaning my bee shed this afternoon and moving a stack of queen
excluders that I have never used, I began to wonder about the evolution, so
to speak, to the bigger and better honey bee and the controversy of "to
queen exclude or not to queen exclude.  The anti-excluder group claim the
bees do not traverse the excluder and therefore do not produce as much
honey.

My question, have the spaces in queen excluders been increased ever so
slightly to accommodate the bigger, better bee?  If not, they very well
could become a deterrent to moving into honey supers simply due to size
constraints.  They obviously can move through but perhaps not as easily as
when bees were smaller.

Also, of the 6 packages I received this spring, 3 have superceded.  They
were SMR queens.  Anyone else having this problem?
Just wondering!
Coleene

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