Mann Lake is the ideal partner for seasoned and beginner beekeepers looking to enhance honey production and harvesting during peak nectar flow seasons.
Our high-quality queen excluder, placed between the hive’s brood boxes and honey supers, allows worker bees to access the honey storage while preventing the queen's access to that area. This ensures no contamination from eggs and maintains the cleanliness of your honey harvest for a more convenient and enjoyable beekeeping experience.
By using a selective barrier inside the hive, you can manage where the queen lays eggs while keeping the honey supers reserved for pure honey storage.
Elevate Your Beekeeping Strategy
Enhance your hive management with our queen excluder, designed to effectively prevent the larger queens from reaching the honey supers.
- Wood Bound Queen Metal Excluder. A robust, fully plated queen excluder featuring computer-controlled welds and wood edge, allowing adequate bee spacing.
- Plastic Excluder. A cost-effective alternative to metal excluders, offering increased resistance to UV damage.
- Queen Excluder. Available in 8 and 10-frame sizes, crafted with low carbon steel and featuring wires crimped into the frame for exceptional durability.
- Metal Queen Excluder Cleaner. A heavy-duty cleaning solution specifically designed for metal or wood-bound queen excluders.
- Entrance Guard with Excluder. Easily secured with a pin or beehive strap, this guard keeps the queen bee from leaving the brood nest area.
Improve Hive Productivity with the Right Tools
Using a selective barrier helps regulate where the brood develops, ensuring a clear separation between brood and honey storage. By preventing the queen from laying in the honey supers, beekeepers can focus on extracting honey without worrying about brood contaminating the harvest.
Additionally, a well-placed excluder encourages the worker bees to store more honey in the supers, leading to a higher yield.
While an excluder does not directly prevent swarming, it helps beekeepers manage hive space and maintain a structured colony environment. During hive inspections or splits, beekeepers can locate and manage the queen more easily, which may assist in controlling colony dynamics, including new queen introduction when necessary.
Ensure Beekeeping Success at Mann Lake
Explore our plastic queen excluder and more for higher-quality honey production and effective hive management. Prevent queen egg-laying in the honey super, reduce swarming risk, and control hive size with ease. Choose the right plastic queen excluder size, and enjoy seamless honey harvesting with our durable, long-lasting solution.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the purpose of a queen excluder?
A queen excluder prevents the queen from entering honey supers, ensuring no eggs are laid in honey storage areas and making honey harvesting cleaner and easier.
Do queen excluders affect honey production?
Yes, they can help maximize honey production by keeping the brood separate, but improper use may reduce worker bee efficiency. Proper placement and hive management are key.
Should I use a queen excluder year-round?
Queen excluders are mainly used during honey production seasons. In colder months, removing them can help prevent hive separation and ensure better overwintering for your colony.