Books? Are you a bot or a human?? 
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Welcome!! To the forum. I have enjoyed meeting all the bee keepers here and they are a great resource to us newbees for sure.
Welcome you need to spin you flow super the other way around. You donāt want to be draining your honey right above the entry landing board.
Funny I didnāt notice that when I took this picture. I have had it the correct way since the bees came
from Chicago, just harvested my summer honey, about 6 gallons. I have drunk the Kool-Aid. Bees happy, no killed bees in process, no need for my bee suitā¦ too good to be true actually! Question: how do the bees know that beneath the cappings the honey has drained out?.. and do they eat/ dispose of the cappings? Just curious.
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Hi, twalker, the bees seem to sense, know the honey is gone from the cells, they uncap and repair the cells to be refilled, all happens fairly quickly.
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Lucky you @twalker! So wonderful to hear another success story 
If I had to guess the answer to your very good question about how the bees know the cells are empty, Iād say perhaps through subtle vibrations - like how we can tell something weāre walking on is hollow. I also wonder what they see when frames are being crackedā¦
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The capping sheet does actually crack vertically, mostly behind the cappings, but mine had some vertical tearing on the frame face too. So they may see those rips as a clue that repairs are needed. I bet they can smell the honey through those gaps too, and investigate why there is a strong honey smell. 
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Ordered my new Flow Hiveā¦ canāt wait for it to come in and get started! This journey will be bizzzzy and fun. Any and all advice would be great! Set up doās n donāts, location advice, seasonal issues, etc. Thanks ahead of time! Amy S
Hi! My name is Sarah, and I am a new beekeeper. Iāve watched the Flow Frame buzz for a few years after I saw the kickstarter. This year I made the dive into beekeeping and Iāve got a hive set up at my farm in Oklahoma. So far we have not had any major issues with pests, robbing or mites- so we feel pretty lucky. I had a full bottom super, on recommendation from my mentor I added a second super. Theyāve mostly moved into the top super, filled it completely full, are ignoring the bottom super, and are in the flow frames but not filling it yet. Theyāve had the flow frames about a month, now. Watching the video on āWhy my bees arenāt filling flow framesā and hoping to get some progress soon.
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Hi Sarah, welcome to the Flow forum. You are a bit late in the season to expect any honey in the Flow super for this year. In fact, I would be taking it off the hive at this point and treating for varroa if necessary. The bees should take to it pretty quickly next year, if you have 2 full brood boxes. Feel free to ask any other questions you have, and perhaps have a read of this thread:
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Hi everybody. I am Koos from South Africa and I am just starting out with the bees, I have a coupe of wild swarms that I want to catch and I am planning to start this coming Saturday, if you have any advice it would be appreciated.
Looking forward to learn from you and in the process help our bees.
Regards
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Hello! I am a relatively new beekeeper from coastal British Columbia, Canada. I started my first hive in March and will be entering my first winter soon.
I look forward to learning from everyone!
Ellen
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Hi Koos, Welcome to the group. Very interested to here how you went with the wild swarms. Africa has a different species of bee to most of us. Do you happen to know which species you have i.e. Apis mellifera or scutellata? I understand that it can be quite difficult to keep scutellata in a managed hive due to their frequent swarming nature and aggressiveness.
@Rodderick We have two honeybee subspecies in South Africa: in the south, we have the cape bee, apis mellifera capensis, and in the north we have apis mellifera scuttellata, the African bee.
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And capensis has fertile workers, yes?
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Thank you
Although Capensis workers lay fertile eggs they are still quite thoroughly policed. Worker reproduction is quite costly to a colony in terms of brood rearing efficiency and loss of hive duties. I have read research that has shown egg policing is as effective as it is in Scutellata. Although Capensis worker laid brood is almost a clone of the worker that laid it, so should be accepted by the colony, there is a theory that queen pheromone marks queen laid eggs and is missing from the worker laid eggs.
Do you ever get worker laid brood above the excluder?