Is there a preferred method of removing the bees from the super? ************************************* I use benzaldehyde (banana oil) on a fume board. I have to remember to smoke the bees in the top super a little to get them started down. Some colonies leave each super in a matter of minutes; others are slower. If any brood is in the extracting super, the bees may not leave no matter what the beekeeper does. I would like to know when a professional beekeeper would consider a super empty of bees. The supers I take off often still have a good many bees in them. Tim Tim Sterrett Westtown, (Southeastern) Pennsylvania, USA [log in to unmask]