From: Erik Osterlund <honeybee@elgon.se>
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 13:59:57 +0100
To: BiologicalBeekeeping@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: 4.9 versus 5.0 - data

Well

Dee and Ed's queen excluders do a job, but mainly as includers, to stop
swarms to fly, when coonies are newly hived. Also I've had remarks about
big yellow bees here in Sweden having difficulties passing the excluders we
have. which would indicate tghe excluder makers havn't joined the enlarging
path, instead creating problems today for some enlarged bees. We'll see.
And I'll see this summer.

Erik

>Forrest's post prompted me to ask something that has been niggling me.
>
>Queen excluders. As i understand the story, smaller bees build smaller
>comb, including building smaller
>diameter queen-cells? Does this result in smaller queen thorax, needing
>smaller-gap excluders to stop
>HRH passing thru (which will only become apparent once your 4.9 bees have
>requeened themselves in
>self-built queen-cells - buying/grafting queens would not show it)?