Description
Queen Excluder | Standard Metal
The Queen excluder standard metal, a very important accessory for your hive. It essentially keeps your queen in the brood boxes while allowing the worker bees to get in your honey supers. This way it keeps the queen from laying eggs in the honey boxes. This quality metal queen excluder will last for many years.
Purpose of a queen excluder?
When starting out with bees for the first time, do not worry about setting up your queen excluder yet. The main purpose of the excluder is to keep the queen from laying eggs in honey supers. New beekeepers should leave it with their honey supers until they have drawn comb on most frames in their brood boxes and need more room, at which point they can use this device. Until then, there is no need to take up any unnecessary space that a new colony needs quickly adjust to its environment.
An invaluable piece of equipment
A queen excluder is an essential piece of equipment in a beehive because it keeps queens and drones out of certain areas while allowing worker bees access. However, this advanced tool can also be dangerous if not handled correctly; placing the wrong size excluder or putting it in the wrong box could cause your hive to suffer since the queen must have unrestricted movement for successful brood rearing! While a queen excluder requires care and precision when used, it’s invaluable for helping keep populations in balance over time.
Does the queen excluder go above the brood box or below it?
Queen excluders are typically placed above the brood boxes, however certain situations such as introducing a swarm or package of bees into a new hive will require that they be placed below for several days. This is done to prevent absconding due to the colony’s unease in a fresh box. Allowing the bees time to build comb and establish their own egg-laying patterns helps keep them content in their home and less likely to abscond.
