I requeened all my hives this spring that seemed overly defensive, those 
that followed me back to the truck or stung regardless of the amount of 
smoke used.  I'm in middle of spring nectar flow and haven't needed to use 
smoke for normal supering, looking at brood area, moving supers around, or 
peeking in the hive since requeening.  I expect more defensiveness once flow 
is over, but perhaps not?  Even with all the cool rainy cloudy days we have 
been having in Georgia, the bees seem to be easy to work when I would have 
expected quite the opposite.

Also, if using plastic foundation for brood rearing, I note that is when I 
get lots of burr and drone comb between supers.  Seems to be less of a 
problem if they have a frame of wax foundation to rear drones.   I have 
converted all my drawn comb shallows from 9-10 to 8 frames and am very happy 
with the resulting fat frames I see the bees drawing out with no bridge or 
burr combs visible at present.  Also, no propolizing the frames together. 

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