A couple of years ago I decided that in order to save lifting heavy boxes, I would convert from deep brood boxes (Modified British National) to shallow ones. 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. I now need to get the stores (pollen & honey) up from the old deep brood boxes to the new brood as soon as possible and before the end of the season. HI, I read somewhere that if one wanted stores moved up from below to a brood chamber above a quick way was to move the entrance up between the new brood above and the stores below whilst giving access to both sets of boxes from the new entrance between them. I have tried this for over a week without much success. It could be that putting a queen excluder below the new entrance but above the stores has put them off taking up the stores (I don't want the queen going down below again this late in the year)! I have given them another try with the stores below (queen excluder still in place) and if that doesn't work I am looking for advice on the best way to get the bees to move those stores up to the new brood nest where the queen is laying well. Does anyone have any ideas this late in the season? In a couple of weeks I shall have to treat for varroa before going away for a few weeks (not unfortunately to Apimondia in Australia). When I return the season in northern Europe will be over and it will probably be too late. If I put the old stores above this winter without a queen excluder the queen and bees will probably move up into the old brood boxes (which I don't want), if I leave a metal queen excluder in place, it will be cold and the bees may move up leaving the queen to starve below. Any useful tips would be much appreciated, John ****************************************************** * Full guidelines for BEE-L posting are at: * * http://www.honeybeeworld.com/bee-l/guidelines.htm * ******************************************************