Need some help, please.  I have searched the archives and most
references to reversing hive bodies concerns spring reverses.

We checked our 4H hive and the bees, brood, queen, were in the second
brood box.  The first brood box (counting from the bottom board up)
contained cappped honey, no brood.  This is not a real strong hive, it
was a package with foundation in April.  And not much in the way of
flows or pollen this summer.  But the bees have drawn out both of the
brood boxes.  We had a honey super as the third box, the bees had drawn
it out but there is no honey.  Could be that they have already moved it
down.

We placed Apistan and Menthol.  Removed the super.  AND we reversed the
hive bodies.  Talked about it all the way home.  Neither of us is sure
if we should have done so.

We can always drive back over tomorrow and undue our damage, if that is
what we did?

As a side note, we were called to retrieve a swarm hanging from a tree
in the cemetery.  Apparently there have been bees in a hollow tree there
since May.  And now they have swarmed.  The swarm was probably less than
a pound.  Not enough time left to get them built up so we will just
combine them with a weak hive.  Our experience last year with the yellow
jackets taught us not to try to build up a swarm when the yellow jackets
are after sweets.

Judy in Kentucky