>This will be my first year getting honey. I went in today to look for >problems and to do some frame shuffling. It was suggested that I could >remove the outer frames if full of honey and replace with empties. They >were and I did. Some of the frames in the suppers >are capped also. Why can't I extract them now. People say they don't >until the end of the season.. Extract sealed frames whenever you like. When I had two hives I was extracting everytime I had 8 frames sealed. Storing frames until the end of the season to make it a once only job risks having completely candied and unextractable frames. Betty McAdam HOG BAY APIARY Penneshaw, Kangaroo Island j.h. & e. mcadam<[log in to unmask] http://kigateway.eastend.com.au/hogbay/hogbay1.htm