Hi Coleene & all

> My question, have the spaces in queen excluders been increased ever so
> slightly to accommodate the bigger, better bee?

Yes! but not by very much.

http://website.lineone.net/~dave.cushman/excludertypes.html
has dimensions of various types, the older designs being the tighter ones.
However there are not enough data points to plot a graph of 'size' against
'year of manufacture'.

The page above is about to be modified to include recent work I have done on
drone excluders...
http://website.lineone.net/~dave.cushman/droneframe.html
http://website.lineone.net/~dave.cushman/dronex/dronex.html

The above two pages contain info on that and links to some other related
pages.

Best Regards & 73s... Dave Cushman G8MZY
Beekeeping and Bee Breeding Website
http://website.lineone.net/~dave.cushman

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