On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Peter L Borst wrote: Many times I have seen dead hives with several boxes of honey not being robbed. I have to put it down to lack of scouts. Maybe there are times when there are simply fewer scouts out looking for dead hives. I don't really know One also have to consider that most if not all that honey is capped, wax sealed, so if not under high sun, probably it doesn't smell like honey. *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html Guidelines for posting to BEE-L can be found at: http://honeybeeworld.com/bee-l/guidelines.htm