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Mike Stoops <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 18 Mar 2003 01:25:08 -0600
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Mr. Martin wrote:

> I would slap an excluder down there so fast that the queen
> wouldn't know what hit her.

Certainly the queen wouldn't/couldn't leave the hive.  Supposition:
Supercedure queen hatches and kills the old queen.  Can a virgin queen pass
through an excluder?  If not, then you have a brand new virgin queen in the
hive with no way to get out for a mating flight.  Now what?

Mike in south central Alabama

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