What would happen if the honey in the arch was scratched open with an excluder directly above it? I would expect that the bees would move it up into the super, and expand the brood nest up to the excluder. 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