Normally when I remove full supers I tip them on their side and wait for bees to leave and then I take the full supers to area where i do my exr\tracting. Generally this is uneventful. This weekend however it was not so easy. The removed supers were quickly set upon by hordes of bees from other colonies. I had to put them under shelter before all the honey was stolen. I took advantage of this by putting out a super of old honey I had from last year that didn't get extracted for some reason. When I checked it tonight it was completely empty. I noticed a lot of wax powder and dead bees around the super. I assume the wax debris is from removed cappings. I'm puzzeled by the dead bees. Could this be a result of inter-colony fighting? I have a couple of other supers with old honey I would like to recycle by the above method and then extract. Has anybody else tried this? Am I doing anything wrong here? Thanks for your help. Regards, Doug Henry, Lockport, Manitoba.