How to Use a Queen Bee Excluder

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The queen excluder is an important part of honey bee keeping. Learn what a queen excluder is and how to use one in this free beekeeping tutorial video.

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How to Use a Queen Bee Excluder
This metal frame is called the queen excluder. That makes the queen stay only in this chamber brood. She cannot come up into the rest of the bee hive. As you saw, we already saw brood on the second and third supers but that was because this device was not placed in. She can only lay eggs in this part of the bee hive.

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