Hello Allen & All,

>I actually don't know any commercial beekeepers in Western Canada who do
not store their supers sticky.

I do not know of any commercial beekeepers in my area which to do store
their supers sticky. I place mine on a forty foot ocean container and
fumigate.

Taking a load of wet supers into a strong bee yard after a honey flow would
cause serious robbing. Sticky supers in my opinion keep comb soft and entice
the bees to move quickly through queen excluders.
 I will say the big Dadant extractors spin comb a lot drier than most hobby
beekeepers can get with a 2 frame handcrank. Also slipping out around dark
and putting wet supers on a couple hives with reduced entrance most likely
would work. I might consider putting on hives despite the problems if the
honey I had extracted from those boxes was quick to granulate honey.

Bob


-- 
This message has been scanned for viruses and
dangerous content by MailScanner, and is
believed to be clean.

******************************************************
* Full guidelines for BEE-L posting are at:          *
* http://www.honeybeeworld.com/bee-l/guidelines.htm  *
******************************************************