Dear Bee Folks - Thus far my comment about letting the bees clean out the
supers that I stacked up in the woods has brought several comments:
l) This is a good way to spread pathogens.
2) Why do I want to clean them out? ( Stan)
3) I don't like to leave mine wet cuz they get moldy (Rick)
 
My thinking on the matter after this discussion is
l) This worries me. But what are my options? I don't like to leave them wet
for the same reasons that  Rick does not...a horrible, smelly mess!  But,
even if I did leave them wet, the honey and pathogens would still be there
come spring and when I went to put them on the hives the bees would be
exposed to the "evil humours."
 
To clean or not to clean, that is the question.  Whether tis nobler to leave
the hives wet and suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous molds or let the
bees clean them and perchance to....whatever.  Perhaps Shakespeare had
answer.  I don't!