Storing supers during treatment

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Bit of advice needed regarding storing capped supers please.

I'm planning on leaving each of my hives with a super of honey for the winter (unfashionable I think, but it's my first year and I'd prefer them to have the honey this winter for a number of reasons).

I will probably need to treat for varroa and would prefer to do so with thymol, which I know will necessitate removing the supers while treating (in case there is any honey left in the spring that I wish to extract).

Is there a way I can store them (I don't have freezer space for them) that will reduce the chance of wax moth issue, for the time they need to be off? I can put them on crown boards in the shed and tape them up, but not sure if that'll do the trick as the shed is neither dry nor bee tight, but they'd only be there for a few weeks.

Or would I be better treating with an option that allows the supers to remain on?
 
Actually, that's not an option I'd considered. I guess I could steal the leisure battery out of the caravan...! I might just go and investigate the how-to of that, thanks for the idea.
 
if you're leaving the supers on for the bees - no need to take them off for treatment. If you're worrying about thymol taint for human consumption, take them off and extract, feed syrup to the bees. Just ignore all the bollox spoken by some about 'honey being better for the bees'
 
if you're leaving the supers on for the bees - no need to take them off for treatment. If you're worrying about thymol taint for human consumption, take them off and extract, feed syrup to the bees. Just ignore all the bollox spoken by some about 'honey being better for the bees'

It's more a case of I won't have an extractor until next year (didn't expect / plan any honey this year but bought in a colony that came with a couple of filled supers). I also don't know what I'd do with it all as I'm not comfortable selling honey not made on 'my watch' if you see what I mean and I can't use it all myself. I probably sound completely daft, but there we go!
 
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