The last few winters have been so mild, the bees have flown far too many
winter sorties, eating themselves out of house and home regardless of
projections, prompting me to hand out candyboards like they were... well,
candy.

But, back in the day when I had hives with excess stores come spring, we'd
score the combs with a cappings tool, tie some 100-lb-test poly string
around the super, and flip them over, so the combs were upside down.  I
still do this when I want the bees to clean out supers in fall, as they just
HATE that upside-down comb, and a little leaking honey from the scored
untouched combs (or what little the extractor did not extract) bring some
house bees up to start the cleanup.

Sadly, this is not going to help Bill T.

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