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Date: | Wed, 3 Nov 1999 19:37:34 -0500 |
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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
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