Hi Peter
> > Queen excluders are available with different spacings ...
>
> Are they? Who stocks them?
All you have to do is measure the different types...
Different suppliers source their wares from various manufacturers and each
is slightly different...
http://website.lineone.net/~dave.cushman/excludertypes.html
By being aware of the racial type of your bee and it's morphometric
characteristics, you can tune the excluder to suit the bees.
I do have two more types of QX that have not yet been photographed and
measured... They will be added within a few weeks.
However do not expect to ask the supplier what the figures are for what they
supply, in the same sense that many consider that the cellsize of foundation
is 'standard', many think that queen excluders are all the same.
The principle is even applied to a wider spacing drone 'excluder' to enable
drone retention...
http://www.dave-cushman.net/bee/dronex/dronex.html
Best Regards & 73s, Dave Cushman... G8MZY
Beekeeping & Bee Breeding Website
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