>The statement above concerning stickies is certainly not true here in
Ontario.  The bees store brood food (honey & pollen) in the first super
above the queen excluder.

My point was that the Aussies make sure that there is always plenty of room
above the excluder for the bees to store nectar, so that they don't
restrict the brood chamber.

The beekeepers whom I've visited in Australia don't stack their honey
supers as high as many do in North America, so they continually rotate two
deep supers above an excluder.

Bob, could you please elaborate on how you run your hives in Ontario in
order to prevent the bees plugging the broodnest?  Are your queens confined
to a single brood chamber with an excluder?  Can we assume that you add
more supers for them to store that 10-20 lbs of honey a day?

And do you top super or bottom super?

Thanks,
Randy



-- 
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com

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