Josh,
It is not meaningful to draw any conclusions from any two hives. Two
Italians or two Carniolans might react equally differently. Queen
excluder questions have been tackled countless times over the years.
Those who love them and those who hate them will neither one budge.
>
> I have a few hives is Southern Alberta. Only one of them is Italian,
> the others being Carniolan, and this Italian hive is being left behind.
Tom Elliott
Chugiak, AK
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