> Is anyone else on the List paying this sort of attention to the "nest edge" with regard to the use of queen excluders?  Observations?

When I used to have all deeps, I would move the honey bound frames above the excluder. But now I run two deeps for brood and mediums for honey supers; no excluders. The queen is less apt to wander under this set-up, because the bees are used to the two deeps being the whole hive half the year; the supers tend to come and go. Occasionally there is brood in the mediums but not as often as there would be in an all deep, no excluder set-up. I just prefer not to restrict the bees in any way. My two cents.

PLB

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