Keith,
> Me, I have not noticed a difference with or without excluders, if one uses drawn comb.
Here in the Anchorage area of Alaska a single deep broodnest will 
produce swarms reliably in a large percentage of hives.  And this is 
with new packages, which the books tell me are not likely to swarm.

Tom Elliott
Chugiak, AK

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