Hi Jonathan & all

> Queen Excluders = honey excluders.

A sweeping statement, but let us look a little at the science behind a queen
excluder.

Queen excluders are available with different spacings, bees vary in size
individually and more importantly there are racial differences in mean
thorax size and spread of thorax size.

So you can get the situation that a colony of bees may be averagely large so
that only a small proportion of their population can actually get through
the queen excluder provided... This gives the appearance that the queen
excluder is at fault, when all that is actually wrong is that the grid is
the wrong size for the bees concerned.


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

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