>the overpopulation. If a hive were to swarm this late in the season >it will be hard pressed to recover in time for winter, yet if I don't >protect against mites the hives may be succeptible to similar losses >as last year. This is a real quandry. Any suggestions? > >Aaron Morris - thinking, "Damned if you do, damned if you don't!?" I haven't had to deal with this problem as yet. Do you think that they will have time to swarm this late in the season? A point to remember, the bees hanging off the front are only field bees, kicked out by the house bees to make space inside. Get a cold day and watch them disappear!! Could you not give them an empty shallow, anything they store, extract, and feed back as liquid in the fall? **************************************************** * David Eyre 9 Progress Drive, Unit 2, * * The Beeworks, Orillia, Ontario, L3V 6H1. * * [log in to unmask] 705-326-7171 * * http://www.muskoka.net/~beeworks * * Agents for: E H Thorne & B J Sherriff UK. * ****************************************************