Computer Software Solutions Ltd wrote: > > 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? ... it's so simple, if all of your Queens have a collored number on it, you will find them in a few minutes. So I do. sig. Maurice from Belgium