I'm surprised that any Aussie beekeepers haven't answered. If you restrict
the queen to a single brood chamber, with supers of drawn comb above, the
workers will maintain an arc of open cells above the broodnest (and above
the excluder), in preparation for the queen to lay (so long as the hive
doesn't plug out with honey).
--
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com
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