To: Jack the B-Man How do you accomplish that without your bees swarming? Or does that not take place? Do you simply let supercedure take it's course. I can't determine whether my bees want to supercede or swarm. Any advice? While I'm at it I have another problem. I only have two hives, In one hive I had left the top access hole ope this summer thinking the bees will have more direct access to the supers. It appears I now have a queen in the brood chamber and one above in the supers. What should I do to correct the situation. If the old queen is below the excluder, should I simply remove the excluder and let them fight it out, or should I locate one of the queens and destroy it? (Which one) . I don't know how I got into this, but I must have let the queen originally get into the supers when I took the hive apart because I notices some brood in the honey supers. I then got the queen back down but the bees may have raised a queen above. I'm learning and am in only my second year so can use the help. Thanks Myron Van de Ven Luxemburg, Wisconsin [log in to unmask]