C.R. - Try laying a cloth (I use a wool one) on top of the cages, covering the entire excluder. Keeps the heat in so the cluster won't recede from the caged queens. Mike C.R. Crowell wrote: > Three queens, caged, placed on a small scrap of wood, on top of a queen > excluder, covered with an empty super above a queenright hive > /C.Crowell