# Foreign particles in Flow Frames **URL:** \ **Category:** Flow Hive\ **Created:** [July 8, 2017, 2:56pm UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/foreign-particles-in-flow-frames/11946 "2017-07-08T14:56:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 20
**Author:** ![Faroe](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.honeyflow.com/faroe/32/11835_2.png) [@Faroe](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/Faroe)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2017, 11:24pm UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/foreign-particles-in-flow-frames/11946/20 "2017-07-10T23:24:37Z")
In regards to having eggs/larvae in the Flow Frames, you can freeze your Flow Frames to kill them, and then put them back in the super for the bees to clean up. > [@Queen bee above the excluder](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/queen-bee-above-the-excluder/8680): > > Hi All. I am not sure how this has happened but it appears that my queen is above the excluder. She is not marked so I have not seen her but I have larvae in my flow frames and nothing below the excluder. Any suggestions on what I should do here? I would encourage you to read the thread here about how long it can take for the Flow Frames to be utilized, and different techniques to encourage the bees to use the Flow Frames without removing the queen excluder: > [@How to encourage bees to fill the Flow Frames](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/how-to-encourage-bees-to-fill-the-flow-frames/6535): > > Just thought I would share this FAQ in case you have some bees who are not taking to the Flow Frames too quickly. [http://www.honeyflow.com/faqs/why-arent-my-bees-filling-the-flow-frames/p/194](http://www.honeyflow.com/faqs/why-arent-my-bees-filling-the-flow-frames/p/194) Why aren’t my bees filling the Flow™ Frames? In: Frequently Asked Questions There could be many reasons why the bees aren’t filling the Flow™ Frames. The two main things we have found that increase the rate at which bees fill the frames for the first time are: Lots of bees on the Flow Frames. This i… Inspecting the Flow Frames doesn’t take too long… the main point about the Flow Frames is the ease of harvesting, and no processing required. The windows can be used to gauge how your super is going, but especially when your hive is new, and you are getting used to the Flow Frames/Flow Hive, we encourage people to inspect the Flow Frames so they can check their honey is capped, and therefore ripe. If you are worried about foreign particles, just run the honey through a filter as others have mentioned on the forum, e.g. @Dawn_SD using (unused) stockings over her container. If you are worried about raw honey - then heat your honey. The Flow Frames have been designed so that if there is a bee in the cell, they shouldn’t get anything caught, e.g. legs or wings, because of the little gaps between the cells. But if you just check your Flow Frames are capped, then you won’t have any bees in your cells. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/foreign-particles-in-flow-frames/11946)._