Hi all

>         This year we used queen excluders on our honey hives and during our
> annual search for light honey couldn't find any pollen at all.
>         So should I 'conclude' from this 'observation' that top entrances
> and the lack of queen excluders lead to pollen in the honey supers? I
> certainly believe so!

We *always* use queen excluders, have top entrances and with
reference to the original post, we don't have any problem with bees
filling supers above the excluder.  They ignore the excluder and I
prefer honey supers that don't have any previous brood---it deters wax
moth.  And who wants brood remnants in their honey?  Anyhow,
having said that we always use excluders, I have found the odd frame
with a few cells of pollen UNDER the honey.  I always wondered what
the bees were thinking..:)

Cheers,

Ian Watson