Moving supers between hives....

[SteveSC]

I put 5 or 6 med. supers w\Pierco black frames on some hives about 6 weeks ago.  3 of the hives took to the plastic pretty - mostly drawn and full supers now - they were slow but they got it done.  The other two just haven't done as well - about 1\2 drawn and no honey. All the hives have drawn out several wax foundation supers each but the plastic Piercos are slow to draw....

My question is, can I take the supers from the slow hives and put them on the hives that accepted the Pierco plastic....?  Will be the bees except a super from another hive with a differnet scent on it...   I thought about taking any other supers off the slow hives and try to force them to draw out the Piercos...would that work..?

I had these Piercos and wanted to use them just to have more drawn comb for next yr......I probably won't use anymore undrawn Pierco unless I can figure out how to get the bees to draw'm out....

[Robo]

My question is, can I take the supers from the slow hives and put them on the hives that accepted the Pierco plastic....?  Will be the bees except a super from another hive with a differnet scent on it... 

Yes, there are no problems moving supers from one hive to another

I thought about taking any other supers off the slow hives and try to force them to draw out the Piercos...would that work..?

Possibly

I had these Piercos and wanted to use them just to have more drawn comb for next yr......I probably won't use anymore undrawn Pierco unless I can figure out how to get the bees to draw'm out....

Are you sure the Pierco is the issue and not just that some hives are stronger than others?

[SteveSC]

Are you sure the Pierco is the issue and not just that some hives are stronger than others?

All these are pretty strong hives  - not that much difference between them. I'm sure that could have factor in it if one hive was stronger than the other..

LIke I said I did put drawn supers on these hives to try to get them in the mood to work the Piercos - they're all over the drawn supers - maybe they'll move down to the Peircos after the cap the other super on top.  It's just strange that they'd be so slow to work the Piercos...

[Bennettoid]

I made the mistake of buying piercos. Won't do it again. I've got my fingers crossed that they will eventually draw them out.