>
>When the queen is confined to a bottom box , under
>conditions of a heavy flow, the forager bees will deposit nectar in any
>open cell in the bottom box, rushing back to the field to get more.
>Real surprise to us
>when we first saw.
  I too was amazed by this. One year, trying to stop swarming, I placed
medium supers of dark comb on the bottom board of strong colonies. I
thought the queen would use it, or the bees would use it for clustering
space. Nope! They stored nectar in them.
         At dandelion flow,  I try to remove the bottom hive body of three
story colonies, and replace it with a medium...my standard configuration.
It is difficult to shake the bees out of the bottom boxes of the strongest
colonies without drowning them, from all the nectar stored in the
combs...another reason I like unlimited brood nests.

Mike

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