>
> > If there is a honey ring
> below the topbars of the top box containing the nest at the time I place
> the excluder and supers, I will reverse the top two boxes splitting the
> nest and creating the nest edge that I seek. The displacement of the
> circular nest into half globes stacked is a temporary thing and does not
> seem to hurt the bees ability to tend all of the larva this late in the
> spring


Thank you for this post, Roger, as this is exactly the conclusion that I
have come to.  Is anyone else on the List (other than the Aussies, who do
so with their single brood chambers) paying this sort of attention to the
"nest edge" with regard to the use of queen excluders?  Observations?

-- 
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com

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