Bob Darrell wrote:

"At the end of the season, after the bees have had time to clean them out, I
stack them in the bee yard for the winter.  I always use queen
excluders(thus no brood in honey supers) so that wax moths are not a
problem."

When is the end of your season? I extract in July after the main spring
nectar flow is over, returning the supers to the bees to be cleaned out.
However, if I leave them on until the "end of the season" (some time in
September for me), I may end up with partially filled, partially capped
supers, not clean,empty supers to be stored. And this may be honey that
should have been stored in the bottom two deeps. I find that I have to take
them off as soon as the bees have cleaned them out. And how does the use of
a queen excluder eliminate the wax moth problem?

Janet A. Katz
Chester, NJ

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