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>>I have some frames of honey that are irregular and miss-shaped.

If you put the frames, loosely spaced, in a couple of empty supers on top of the inner cover, the bees will normally take the honey down.  Normally - because, if there is a strong flow, the bees may actully continue putting nectar away in these frames!

If you are planning to re-build these frames with fresh foundation, you can squash the cells to induce to bees to clean up the honey.

>>I have been advised to not placed the frames outside the hives for
cleaning.

This could send a bunch of bees up into the air zooming in on the goodies and it could lead to massive robbing.

However, you can do it in a 'controlled' manner.  I've leaned such frames against the fronts of hives AFTER dark.  Bees will come out of the entrances and crawl onto the frames to retrieve the honey.  One or two frames, in a single layer, at a time works best.

The frames are honey-free in the morning.  Just make sure night temps are high enough for the bees to venture out.

Waldemar
Long Island, NY

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