>the overpopulation.  If a hive were to swarm this late in the season
>it will be hard pressed to recover in time for winter, yet if I don't
>protect against mites the hives may be succeptible to similar losses
>as last year.  This is a real quandry.  Any suggestions?
>
>Aaron Morris - thinking, "Damned if you do, damned if you don't!?"
 
I haven't had to deal with this problem as yet. Do you think that they will
have time to swarm this late in the season?
        A point to remember, the bees hanging off the front are only field
bees, kicked out by the house bees to make space inside. Get a cold day and
watch them disappear!! Could you not give them an empty shallow, anything
they store, extract, and feed back as liquid in the fall?
 
 
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