> Sometimes, but at other times, we pull them in the early morning and pick
> them up two hours later, or even pull them mid-day and pick them up a day
or
> two later.

Here in Australia, abandonment is practiced in the far western country when
beekeepers are working yapunyah.  They usually lift the supers off in the
morning and come back in the afternoon.  Conditions have a lot to do with
abandonment and, in our area, we cannot use the abandonment method because
it would set up a big robbing problem.

However, if robbing is a problem, you can lift the top super of honey off at
dusk, leave a two inch gap in the lid and sit the super on its end on top of
the lid.  Bees will leave the super during the night and travel back into
the hive via the two inch gap.

You have to be at the hives before dawn next morning to pick up the supers
and straighten up the lid before robbing starts.

Trevor Weatherhead
AUSTRALIA

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