On Nov 30, 2005, at 1:04 PM, Lloyd Spear wrote:

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> What do you do instead of storing supers?  If you put them back on the
> hives, do you use excluders?

Hi Lloyd and all

Following advice from New Zealand(AFB Elimination Manual), I put my
extracted supers back on the hives they came from(obviously a small
beekeeper).  During the honey flow they stay on the hives.  At the
end of the season, after the bees have had time to clean them out, I
stack them in the bee yard for the winter.  I always use queen
excluders(thus no brood in honey supers) so that wax moths are not a
problem.  The honey Judge at a recent meeting of the Dufferin
Beekeepers Association gave as his reason, for not storing supers
wet, that the crystallized honey in the supers would lead to early
crystallization of next years crop.

Bob Darrell
Caledon Ontario
Canada
80W44N
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