//--- forwarded letter ------------------------------------------------------- > X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 4.1 > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Bill, > > Brood in the supers means the queen was there... To stop this, either use a queen excluder > below the supers (...making sure the queen is below...) and/or make sure your bottom super > or top hive body is full of honey. (The queen won't cross honey to lay above it.) > > Putting an excluder on now will trap any emerging drones up there, but they can be given a > top exit with a small rock under the top cover. It's a bit like closing the barn door after the > horse is gone, as prevention sure is better than the cure on this one. Note: if you move the > super with brood very far above honey supers, the nurse bees up there will think they are > queenless and might start supersedure cells. Watch for them. > > Have fun! Last night I moved the top super that was full of honey on the bottom, just above the second full sized box. I then took the bottom supper and put it on top (most of it was eggs). Then I got to thinking what if the queen is now up in this what is now the top super. Will she cross honey to go back down into the hive?