With reference to the numerous posts on burr comb removal. I have been watching how my bees build buurr comb and have concluded that it is for insulation purposes. Wild hives are hardly ever situated in a place where the brood nest has half a meter to a meter of honey stored over it. In my experience the brood nest is uusually below the ceiling of whatever theyare on, seperated by three cm of capped honey. Hence my gut feeling is that the bees are trying to conserve heat by plggin up all the holesthat would lead to convection cuurrents cooling them down. Has anybody ever read of a hive where the supers are below and the brood nest above for winter in mild areas? Anyhow, I tried removing burr comb and then formulated thisexcusenot to. Keep well Garth --- Garth Cambray "Opinions expressed in this post may be those 15 Park Road of Pritz, my cat, who knows a lot about Grahamstown catfood." 6140 *[log in to unmask]* South Africa Phone 27-0461-311663 In general, generalisations are bad. But don't worry BEEEEEE happy.