# Southern California Remove super? **URL:** \ **Category:** Beekeeping - Basics\ **Created:** [September 23, 2023, 6:29pm UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/southern-california-remove-super/35636 "2023-09-23T18:29:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![Dawn\_SD](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.honeyflow.com/dawn_sd/32/15954_2.png) [@Dawn\_SD](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/Dawn_SD)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2023, 8:31am UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/southern-california-remove-super/35636/2 "2023-09-24T08:31:45Z")
Hi Ryan, Yes I would remove the super. I recently posted my reasoning on this thread: > [@Remove Flow super for winter?](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/remove-flow-super-for-winter/35633/2): > > Hello and welcome to the Flow forum! blush Yes definitely. I take mine off in July, because we don’t have any nectar flow after that time. No but they may be damaged by the bees gumming them up with propolis, which they start to do when the nectar flow drops off. That is why I remove mine in July. It is perfectly safe to freeze Flow frames, and I do that to kill of wax moth and small hive beetle eggs and larvae before storing the frames for winter. There are many, and if you use the magn… You can, but if it is uncapped, I would harvest it off the hive. This is controversial advice (Flow disagrees with me), but in my experience, mostly uncapped Flow frames create more of a leak back into the hive at a time of year when the colony can’t afford to lose honey. I use an inner cover with a bee escape to clear the Flow super. Mann Lake and other bee suppliers have these. I leave it in place for 48 hours, then remove the super. Usually there are very few bees in the super at this point and I harvest in my kitchen, with the super on a tilt over a large sheet pan to catch the drips. If the honey is so uncapped, I would either do a honey refractometer test, or just freeze it until needed and eat (or give it back to the bees) within a week or two. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/southern-california-remove-super/35636)._