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FOLLOWING THE BEE LINE 
Queen excluders are flat frames made of parallel 
wire strands with space between each wire allowing 
worker bees to pass through but not a wide enough 
passageway for the larger, full-bodied queen. These 
frames inserted between brood nest and honey cham¬ 
ber are useful in keeping the queen from going above 
and laying eggs in cells which the honey producer 
plans to have filled with honey. . . . Danger 
of a honey consumer getting an unappetizing 
mouthful of young bee larvae when biting into a 
section of comb honey is thus eliminated! 
Bee-escapes are another, clever, everlastingly use¬ 
ful invention; small flat tin affairs a few inches long, 
with a hole on the upper side, leading into a pair of 
delicately adjusted flexible springs tapering to a 
point, through which a bee can push, coming out 
on the lower side of the device. Bees will push out 
but will not push back the other way. They could 
squirm and edge through sideways but they never 
do. Fitted into a slotted board and placed below a 
super of finished honey, the super will be cleared of 
bees without the trouble of smoking and driving 
them out. There are numerous other ways of using 
the Porter bee-escape, all with the fundamental idea 
of trapping bees from a place where they are un¬ 
wanted. 
