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Such hive had got allready swarming into their heads. When the colony does not draw foundations, in next inspection you will see there queen cells.

It depends, how much your colony has bees. If they have bees enough, they may occupy perhaps 1/2 out of box undet the brood box. But if you put empty brood box over the first BB, there will be a huge gab between the supers and the brood. I have just now a double brood colony, and no supers...

Me or Andrew?

And excluder stoping to lay more. Where bees put pollen? They store it in honey frames. Where to put nectar when super are full of honey. ... bees store nectar into brood combs. Drying up nectar needs twice as much space than ready honey.

It is June now and the best summer shead. It is not time to think how to overwinter.

And you have deciced that you do not give more space. Why quys here try to help you and they give such advices which makes your beekeeping impossible. Give another brood box and it is only way to proceed. And two supers are not enough ti double brood hive. One brood and 2 supers is nothing...

Let the colony swarm untill it is proper size

Summer is at the beginning . Put into hives and bees fill the frames. So it goes every year.

I use to keep the queen laying in mating nucs 4 weeks, that I see what kind of brood and bees the queen does

It is very difficult to use and lots of damages. I heat the room to 25C with electric heater, and the wax returns flexible.

I looked this evening my good hive. It is some kind of hybrid. Buckfast × Italian × Carniolan. About 10 queen cells. Tomorrow I make an artificial flying swarm onto foundations. And that is it. The hive is full of nectar and the queen is almost stopped laying. After 3 days it starts again...

But there is no need to that.

Grazy.... Ypu have a good queen which like to lay more than you permit. You play with risk , that hou force your hive to swarm I like good layers and big hives. Such bring honey. . I use 3 langstroth brood boxes. Big idea is that the lowest box is a pollen store. Otherwise bees store pollen...

If you rear 15 queens and you put there one full frame of bees and one frood frame, it will be a normal hive to found the mating nucs.

Something extra to do to beekeepers, if they do not invent what.

Start to use 3 normal frame mating nucs, and the nuc will never abscond. But the nuc needs brood there, that bees feel it cosy. If the mating nuc box has 3 separate rooms, losses will be big. I changed those to solitary nucs and losses went to zero.

I let the hives grow long as I see queen cells. Then I make badgen AS on foundations If AS stuffs are ready, AS is very easy to do.

Warm uo the room to 25C and brittle foundation will become soft. It lays down along wires nicely. 2 years old foundation is very new. I have never used hair dryer to foundations, but I always warm up the room to 25C.

Reason to angry bees is, that they are angry. You notice it later, when you change the queen. Very simple.. Natural bees must protect their hive. It is in bees' genes.

Emergency queens have never been a problem to me. It is better than nothing.