The negative recourse of confining the Queen to one deep, is the colony is competing the available cells for brood and not adequate pollen stores. Some even run 9 frames in the brood boxes, to complicate matters even further. Running one deep one super as a colony, is more about logistics of what fits on a rig and what that load is worth in pollination. Is doing so, best for the colony? Absolutely not..... Tim Ives Northern Indiana *********************************************** 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