John

> I have got the bees to move the brood up to the new shallow boxes with some difficulty
> in what has been a generally difficult beekeeping season in Scotland.

Since early June I've been trying to get one colony (which occupied the shallow box in some old equipment of a deceased beekeeper) to do the opposite!  Perhaps we should have exchanged bees ....

Gavin

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