4 Pack - 10 Frame Plastic Langstroth Queen Excluder for Beekeeping with Ten Frame Bee Hives for Keeping The Queen Separate from Honey Supers
Brand: Foxhound Bee Company
Categories: Patio, Lawn & Garden, Farm & Ranch, Beekeeping Supplies

EASY TO FIND THE QUEEN- The grid design has slots that are large enough for worker bees to pass through easily, but small enough to keep drones (male bees) and the queen from passing through. Keeping the queen in the brood nest makes it very easy to find her without having to look through honey boxes for her. 10 FRAME OPTION - Use the larger 10-frame excluder for use on a 10-frame hive and an 8-frame excluder on your 8-frame hive. These queen excluders will work on all standard Langstroth hives. HONEY FRAMES ARE PROTECTED - While using a queen excluder between the brood boxes and the honey boxes, you can be confident the honey frames are protected from the queen. EASY TO USE - Installing a queen excluder is very simple to do; it can be done without any special tools. Simply place it above your brood boxes and under your honey boxes. CUSTOMIZABLE PLASTIC - The plastic can be trimmed and shaped to fit your specialized needs. it can be adjusted to fit a Top Bar Hive or a Horizontal Langstroth Hive. DIMENSIONS AND COLOR - Color of the queen excluder is orange. The 10-frame queen excluder is 19.75 x 16.25 x .0625-inches About Foxhound Bee Company: Foxhound Bee Company was started in 2014 in Birmingham, Alabama and is owned by Adam Hickman, an EAS Master Beekeeper. Our company is very knowledgeable about bees and focus on quality beekeeping supplies and equipment. We understand that beekeeping is very unique and the equipment needed is unique to the goals of the individual beekeeper. We love beekeeping, almost as much as we love helping new beekeepers get started in their new hobby. If you are ever in Birmingham, please come by to see us.

FROM AN AMERICAN COMPANY: A queen excluder works by separating the brood nest from the boxes where the bees will store their excess honey, helping keep the hive organized and making honey harvesting easier
SAFE FOR BEES AND INCREASES CONFIDENCE: Smooth, oval gaps with rounded edges encourages bees to pass through the excluder without damaging any bee wings or legs; giving the beekeeper more confidence as to where their queen is in the bee hive, making it easier to find her among the frames and harvest honey
UNIVERSAL FIT: Our queen excluder is designed to fit all 10 frame Langstroth bee hives and is simply placed flat above the boxes where the queen laying eggs and below the boxes where honey is stored
IDEAL SIZING AND SPACING: The spaces in the grid are perfectly spaced large enough to allow the smaller worker bees through the holes, but small enough to exclude the queen and keeping her from entering the honey boxes; maximizing honey product in each hive
MULTIPLE USES: Besides keeping queens from entering honey boxes, queen excluders can be used for queen rearing, cut down into custom sizes to fit top bar hives, 5 frame nucleus hives and Flow Hives

Package Dimensions: 20.75 x 16.85 x 0.67 inches
Customer Reviews: 4.6 out of 5 stars 120 ratings 4.6 out of 5 stars
Item Weight: 2.46 pounds
ASIN: B07QM4YRDZ