From: Pav <bobhog@pin.co.nz>
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 2:45:44 +1200
To: <BiologicalBeekeeping@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: Queen excluders

At 1/03/01 17:22:00, John wrote:
>Bees and Beekeeping, by Eva Crane lists excluder sizes.

Thanks for this John.

> What you doing with queen excluder anyway? Unnatural
> device if ever there was one...

Queen-rearing, queen-finding, swarm-catching, drone-excluding, 2-queen colonies (experimentally)...off the top of my head...

Yep, 'bout as natural as moveable-frame hives...

-Pav, gone bush again, no power, no phone, writing by candle-light as his laptop slowly goes flat. Am a naturalist, ain't a purist.

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