I might have missed something on this thread but instead of an excluder
why not a frame of brood? That's what I have always used and I have
never had a swarm abscond. I started out using excluders for honey but
found them to cause the bees to fill up the brood boxs first before
moving up into the supers so I don't use them anymore.
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Kent Stienburg
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