Rodney Farrar wrote:

> Any more details on How you do this? Do you shake the bees off down in the
> box and use smoke to make them go through the excluder? How do you keep the
> in the super box without flying out?

Take the colony down to the bottom box. Leave it on the bottom board. Place the
other boxes on upturned inner covers. Remove all the frames from the bottom
box, and lean them against one of the others. Dump all the bees out of the
bottom box/bottom board. Scrape the box, especially the frame rest.
    Place the shaker box on the bottom box, leaving a 3" opening at one side.
Pick up the first frame, and shake the bees into the shaker box. Place this
frame into the 3" opening, and shove it under the excluder. Repeat this with
all 9 or 10 frames. Slide the shaker box back over the bottom. With very light
smoke across the top of the shaker box, the bees will go down. Sometimes, if
they want to boil over, scrape the sides of the shaker box with your hive tool,
knocking the bees back down onto the excluder.
    Shake the bees out of the other boxes into the shaker box. The queen will
be in the shaker box.

                                                                        Mike