Removed the queen excluder

[Finman]

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I just tell that my hives have been without excluder 50 years and it does not kill queens.

When the queen has free acces up, it does not like to lay in lowest box, because it is cold.

 

[Tom Bick]

Yes I very seldom look for her. Just hoping no swarm cells so I can keep it that way.

I don't go looking for the queens any more apart from when you need to find her. It was the worry that she may be walking close to the bottom or top of a super with plenty of brace comb when I moved the supers and re stacked them that worried me.

 

[Fatbee]

Just re-visiting this thread - how have the excluderless guys got on at super removal time? Has queen migrated up much in to supers?

Only ask because contemplating leaving a few excluders in the shed next year.

 

[Margaret Elisabeth]

Thanks for moving this up. I missed this thread earlier. Interested to read it now as my queen got through the excluder and I removed it as I was unsure where she was. I may have wasted the £18 I spent on a supposedly better one to replace the cheaper plastic pingy one. Thinking of double brood for next year and moving the brood up to make more laying room as per the Aussie liked method.