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Super

What is Super?

  1. Any hive body, or smaller box, used for the storage of surplus honey which the beekeeper will harvest. Normally it is placed over or above the brood chamber. Betterbee offers shallow, medium, and deep supers.
  2. A box placed on a hive with frames to collect honey.
  3. A box, or boxes, above the bottom box of the hive.

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