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Debating Queen Excluders: Pros: Prevent queens from laying in supers; separates brood from honey. Cons: Less honey in supers; slow nectar storage; poor for weak hives.
When faced with an overly defensive hive, it can be very difficult to “just requeen.” Here we explain a better approach to changing the attitude of a hot hive.
Finding a queen is probably one of the most frustrating aspects of beekeeping! You are literally trying to spot one bee amongst tens of thousands of other bees, all while they run around on a frame. While there is no easy answer, I do have a handful of tricks I use after finding thousands of queens over the past decade.
