Although a number of beekeepers pour sugar on newspaper placed right on the frames, this method can and does lead to major ant problems in the spring. Far better to pour the sugar around the center hole of the inner cover. Moisture from the bees, that is not completely exhausted through the front top vent, will collect in the sugar, perhaps making it more attractive to them. In the spring, all the remaining sugar, placed in this way, can be poured into containers to make sugar syrup. None will be wasted. If placed directly above the frames, much of it will fall to the bottom board, and if a screen bottom board is used, the sugar will fall to the ground itself, thus drawing the ants to the hive. None will be recoverable for the sugar syrup. OMTCW