In a message dated 15/04/03 05:03:09 GMT Daylight Time,
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<< If she is newly minted and unmated and slim and beautifully
anorexic, could she not go through the QE with no trouble at all as we
sometimes observe? >>
Yoon,
It is the thorax, not the abdomen, that the queen excluder is calculated to
stop passing through. I don't think this changes after mating.
Chris
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