Metal Queen Excluder-used

A robust slotted excluder with a mirror finish. Easy to clean, very strong.
These vital pieces of beekeeping equipment do exactly as their name implies. They exclude the queen from parts of the hive as and when the beekeeper requires. This is because the queen is slightly larger than a normal worker bee and cannot pass through the slots. They are used almost exclusively to keep the queen in the brood body. By doing this, the beekeeper restricts the queen to egg laying in this one box, leaving the supers full of only honey and no eggs.

Available for National hives only. When fitting a National or Commercial excluder, as it is square, place the excluder with the slots running across the frames.