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Re: EXCLUDING QUEENS?
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Tom Elliott <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 25 Aug 1998 20:58:24 -0800
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Bozard, Charles Emmett (Mick) wrote:
 
> WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF WERE TO PUT A QUEEN EXCLUDER UNDER THE BROOD BOX AT
> THE ENTRANCE,  PREVENTING THE QUEEN EVER TO LEAVE.
 
If the bees decide to swarm they will just do it when you go in for
inspection purposes.  I have had a swarm emerge from a colony with a
bottom excluder (it was not my colony).  It was an exciting thing to
see, but the bees still swarmed.
 
Tom
 
--
"Test everything.  Hold on to the good."  (1 Thessalonians 5:21)
 
Tom Elliott
Chugiak,  Alaska
U.S.A.
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