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In a message dated 15/04/03 05:03:09 GMT Daylight Time,
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<<  If she is newly minted and unmated and slim and beautifully
 anorexic, could she not go through the QE with no trouble at all as we
 sometimes observe?   >>


Yoon,

It is the thorax, not the abdomen, that the queen excluder is calculated to
stop passing through.  I don't think this changes after mating.

Chris

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