Is there a preferred method of removing the bees from the super?
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       I use benzaldehyde (banana oil) on a fume board.  I have to remember
to smoke the bees in the top super a little to get them started down.
       Some colonies leave each super in a matter of minutes; others are
slower.  If any brood is in the extracting super, the bees may not leave no
matter what the beekeeper does.
       I would like to know when a professional beekeeper would consider a
super empty of bees.  The supers I take off often still have a good many bees
in them.
Tim
Tim Sterrett
Westtown, (Southeastern) Pennsylvania, USA
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