> I don't know if I agree, though, with the statement someone made that
> bending one wire makes them useless.  Some time back, I heard that only
> the
> centre part matters (probably on BEE-L?) and the queens just hunt around
> the
> middle part, so we put a whole bunch on crossways -- like a thousand?  A
> few
> queens went up, most didn't, but we stopped doing that.

My experience is that the welded wire excluder gets wires bend on the ends
where the hive tool goes in.  I have had a wire or two bent there and a
queen got up on more than one occasion.  Straightened it out and had no more
trouble.  Blamed the worker for bending the wire, definitely couldn't have
been the boss.  So obviously the queen has gone to the trouble of going to
the end of the box in order to be able to get up.  Our wires run longways
except, obviously, for the crosswires.

Trevor Weatherhead
AUSTRALIA

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