Jerry B. wrote:
>When the queen is confined to a bottom box , under
>conditions of a heavy flow, the forager bees will deposit nectar in any
>open cell in the bottom box, rushing back to the field to get more. >Real
surprise to us >when we first saw.

Mike said:
  I too was amazed by this. One year, trying to stop swarming, I placed
medium supers of dark comb on the bottom board of strong colonies. I thought
the queen would use it, or the bees would use it for clustering space. Nope!
They stored nectar in them.

The way to stop the above is to change the location of the entrance. I
learned about changing the entrance from Dr. Farrar.

You do not want the movement of nectar to be right through the nursery!

Bob

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