Frames are leaking honey

[Dawn_SD]

@ocobee

a lot of the cells are capped but as you can see the end ones never get a chance to fill with honey for the girls to cap them

I think this may be a misconception/“non sequitur”. The cells around the edges of many frames are often not capped. @JeffH posted some beautiful photos of capped frames within the last 24 hours, but if you study them, you will see that virtually every frame has empty cells around the edge.

Capped cells leaking into hive when harvesting - photo attached

G’day Tom, here at Buderim, near the coast, we also get low viscosity honey this time of year. I always make sure the cells are fully capped, (as you did) before harvesting the honey. It’s not so much capillary action that causes wet caps to separate, causing a leak, I believe it’s the surface tension of the cap on the honey that causes the cap to move with the honey, once the honey starts to flow. Very similar to a leaf floating on water, that moves as the water moves. I not long came home wi…

This is just what bees do. I don’t believe it contributes to leakage from the Flow frame. Just my opinion, and I would of course defer to @Cedar, @Faroe or Flow company experts.