# My experience of using Flow frames without an excluder

**URL:** <https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/my-experience-of-using-flow-frames-without-an-excluder/2956>\
**Category:** Flow Hive\
**Created:** [August 16, 2015, 7:09pm UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/my-experience-of-using-flow-frames-without-an-excluder/2956 "2015-08-16T19:09:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 7

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Michael\_Bush](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.honeyflow.com/michael_bush/32/1024_2.png) [@Michael\_Bush](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/Michael_Bush)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2015, 8:10pm UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/my-experience-of-using-flow-frames-without-an-excluder/2956/7 "2015-08-17T20:10:14Z")

</div>

In my experience, having drone comb in the brood nest makes a big difference to whether the queen lays in the supers. C.P. Dadant mentions this although he puts it kind of the other way around. That if you don’t allow drone comb in the brood nest you have to make an effort to keep it out of the supers…

---

_[View the full topic](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/my-experience-of-using-flow-frames-without-an-excluder/2956)._