[Jeff G]

I am in central Ohio and have 2 new hives that are filling their first honey supers on top of 2 - 8 frame deeps. When do you remove, or how do you know when to take the honey supers off and let the bees prepared for winter?

 

[Jeff G]

They both were full of bees and capped honey when I put on the supers. One had close to 6 frames of capped deeps and the other had 4. They also had capped stores in the tops of the brood frames. They have had a good source of white sweet clover all spring but that has faded. I have shallow honey supers and one hive has capped 2 frames and the other has one. They are drawing most of the frames in the super.