Editing Horizontal top-bar hive (section)

====Queen exclusion====
Natural queen exclusion occurs more frequently in top-bar hives, because the brood nest is separated from the honey section by at least a full bar of honey comb, and not just a few centimetres (inches) of honey as may be the case in a multi-storey framed hive. And the more honey is gathered, the further the brood nest becomes from newly created comb.

However, some commercial top-bar beekeepers have found that artificial queen excluders are sometimes necessary to keep the queen from laying eggs in the honey section of the hive.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tbhsbywam.com/opening-hives/ |title=Opening Hives » 200 Top-Bar Hives: The Low-Cost Sustainable Way |publisher=Tbhsbywam.com |date=2013-11-21 |access-date=2015-03-18}}</ref>