Hi Jerry,

        If handled properly excluders seems to work OK; are you shure that
yuo are adding suficient space to queen's chamber after the placement of the
excluders?
Are you shure taht the old sealed larva combs where moved up?

In that way it work fine to me, got clean honey, lot of brood, non stoping
layering queen, and stronger colony.(I use plastic)

Julio.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerry Bromenshenk" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 10:44 AM
Subject: [BEE-L] queen excluders


> All of the discussion about cleaning excluders begs the real questions:
>
> Do excluders actually work as well as the proponents think -- in our
> research, we've seen a lot of queens slip through, whether metal or
plastic.
>

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