Hi All
 
Another question from a new beekeeper
 
The book says, that when you lift the crown board, that you should check
that the queen is not on the underside of it.
 
It strikes me, that if you always put a queen excluder over the brood
chamber even before you put on any supers. that this possibility would be
eliminated, so it is one less thing for a new beekeeper (who like myself
would not be able to identify the queen in the melee of bees anyway), to
have to contend with.
 
I am aware that a very small queen can possibily get through the excluder,
but to an amateur, who would have difficulty in identifying any sized queen,
this would hardly be of significance.
 
What do our experienced people think?