In a message dated 8/14/99 7:51:21 PM EST, [log in to unmask] writes:

> Finding brood below the frame bottom bars is perfectly normal, especially if
>  the bees are in a nectar flow.  These are generally drones, and as such
>  scraping them off will do no harm.
Some folks scrape them off some folks leave them the difference is minor -
the important thing is to look them over carefully for you can detect varroa
mites easily against the white bodies of drone brood.