At 07:55  7/5/96 EST, you wrote:
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>Sender:       Discussion of Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
>Poster:       "Mark D. Egloff" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject:      To many supers :(
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>     Gentlepeople:
>     In my excitement of having a colony that survived the winter,
>     agreed to become a 2-queen unit just like the books said it
>     could be done, and produced BUNCHES of honeybees, I loaded on
>     to many supers and the bees have spread their honey stores out
>     throughout the hive.  Without really filling any super
>     completely, the bees have placed honey in all the supers and I
>     would like them to concentrate the honey into fully capped
>     supers.
>
>     I know the rest of you experts NEVER do anything like this so
>     if you could give me some of the ideas you might hive on how to
>     get the bees to move honey from six partially filled supers to
>     four completely filled supers, I would appreciate it.
>
>     Thanks to all.
>
>     Mark Egloff
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Mark,
 
For every question of this sort, your going to get umpteen answers.  So,
here's mine:
 
I would use some Bee-Go and force the bees down, then remove the top two
supers and extract them.  TAH-DAH!  See how easy that was?
 
I agree with Allen that making them move the honey may do more harm than
good.  So, just get what you can from the the top two and then they'll be
limited to filling up the rest.
 
 
Regards,
 
 
Mike Wallace
Sar Shalom Apiary
McKinney, Texas   USA
"Out of the heart, the mouth speaks."