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Re: BEE-L Digest - 16 Mar 2003 to 17 Mar 2003 (#2003-77)
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Mr. Martin wrote:

> I would slap an excluder down there so fast that the queen
> wouldn't know what hit her.

Certainly the queen wouldn't/couldn't leave the hive.  Supposition:
Supercedure queen hatches and kills the old queen.  Can a virgin queen pass
through an excluder?  If not, then you have a brand new virgin queen in the
hive with no way to get out for a mating flight.  Now what?

Mike in south central Alabama

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