> > > The trick seems to be to keep a box of "stickies" > (recently-extracted drawn combs) directly above the excluder, so that > the bees don't plug out the brood chamber with honey or pollen. > I wondered on that comment as I have learned that here in the Midwest stickies will cause SHB infestations! All supers are robbed and let set for 10/12 days to loose the attractiveness to SHB. Wonder how the Aussies handle that problem as I know they have SHB bad also? Charles *********************************************** 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