Alternating frames

[banjojohn]

I did a quick check on my best hive, it had slowed down honey production during our 3 wk. dry spell, it rained a few days ago and of course they had filled the super. I had a super I had cut honey out of and had been bee cleaned last year. It had the skim of remains on the frames. I put an empty frame between 2 full ones, of course this give me 2 shallow supers like this. I hadn't done this before , but I had heard they will stay between the lines like this. Anyone else done this or am I going to have a mess?

[Jerrymac]

The "full" frames are capped right?  Then you should be fine. If they are not capped there is a chance of them drawing the "full" frames out further.

[banjojohn]

Yes they were mostly capped and they were pretty mean during this , probably thought I was robbing. All my hives were pretty gentle, I weedeat right in front of them, but that day every one wanted a piece of me. I went in at 10 o'clock on a sunny day and I had to back off and smoke a bunch as soon as I lifted a cover, got 1 in the veil  a couple times and did the  run behind the tree and get it off dance, first aggression much out of any of them this year.

[Michael Bush]

I'm with Phoenix.  As long as they are capped it will work fine.  If not, they will probably fatten the combs on each side instead.