I checked and weighed hives today. We have 14 full size hives in double deeps. and 4 nucs in double nuc boxes. Only four of the hives and two of the nucs were down in the bottom box. The hives all have sufficient weight to be ready for winter except 1. The light hive is headed by a late queen and is still raising lots of brood. This is our 5th winter with bees and the first time I have had this situation. Usually they are all in the bottom box by early October. I know I have to keep feed above them, but what did I do wrong to foster this problem? Dave *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html Guidelines for posting to BEE-L can be found at: http://honeybeeworld.com/bee-l/guidelines.htm