Queen Excluders and Hope pt 2 - Finding the queen in a massive colony

Hello everyone,
Seeing as my editor is being difficult and not letting me edit my long form video without crashing, I thought I'd release this catch-up video instead.
This colony had tried to swarm and seeing as I don't use queen excluders until mid summer, finding the queen was going to be difficult. In the last video, I destroyed every queen cell I could find and then separated each box with a queen excluder.
This method may not actually find the queen per se, but it does confine her into a box so she can be removed and looked for at a later date.
Once the queen has been removed, the now queenless colony will be able to make a new queen and continue the job of collecting honey. Most importantly, I won't lose a swarm over the horizon.
I hope you're all safe and well,
Greg
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Usually in my large hives I don't even bother looking for the queen, I just look at the frames and if things look good I move on, plenty of signs if you have a queen or not, or if the queen is not laying well, also other signs based on the bee behavior.