On  2 Mar 97 at 20:36, Chris van Zyl wrote: DEAD BEES AT FREE HONEY
 
> After exctracting I put my frames and extractor out for the bees to
> remove the unused honey.
> I alway find lots of dead bees after this.  Can anybody explin why?
> Do they overfeed, fight or what?
> Is this a good thing to do?
>
 There many an arguement on this process of clearing extracted supers.
Regardless of how it's done, fighting will invarably happen, and that's
what happened here. If it doesn't bother you to see drifts of dead bees
around, then yes, you can clear old honey or dripping boxes by leaving
them around the bee yard.
        A better way to prevent robbing from becoming a problem would be to put
the boxes back on the hives, leaving a opening in the inner cover. Just
make sure there are no openings in these boxes to the outside.The bees
will now come up and clean those boxes so that there is no honey residue
left, when clean they can be stored with no drips, till next season.
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