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It would not be advisable to feed syrup when there are supers on, unless that super will be used only for feeding bees who have insufficient stores in their box for winter. I am sure that would be agreed on, as none of us want to recycle syrup into supers for extraction. For winter, they need full stores of honey and pollen. The ivy is just coming out here, so I am now topping up their top brood boxes with syrup, where they have already lightened them or are really short (the small colonies, which are starting late), to avoid ivy honey fooling me into thinking they will be OK for stores, but them being unable to use that solid stuff without water collection.