>   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.
>  allen

I know this is 180 degrees different, but...
...I find exactly the opposite to be true...when the queen is going the
other way...back into the hive. I made a shaker box, with an excluder
nailed onto the bottom of a hive body. I use it sometimes, to find a queen
that I can't find in the usual way. I use the box as a filter...running the
bees through it...and leaving the queen running around on the excluder,
trying her darndest to get through. The queen is always in a corner, or
edge...and never in the middle of the excluder, when I find her.
Mike



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