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You must get more frames and foundations. Bees do combs when they need them.

My record to feed hives is when it was end of June when I was moving hive to turnip **** fields. All hives were very empty.

When you start feeding in the evening, robbers will not harm the colony. The colony must be so stong that it occupyes all combs. Final robbers will be killed inside on combs.

Do you have a place , where the honey does not crystallize. I think that the honey should be extracted.

I let the queen lay so much as it can. I had a colony, which occupyed 5 frames at the first of May Now it has 4 langstroth boxes. No eccluder.

What heck is happening here!

If I see a bee, I do not see a banana. Banabas do not flye or they do not send a sound.

They are so many dize. With average number you ho nothing. And then if you limit laying with excluder.

To me it is like bee venom

How many boxes alltgether you have in your hive?

Very bad idea. You ruin a good hive. Put two boxes foundations above broodboxes.

To wash honey from combs with water is better that destroying whole combs. When you soak the frames into 40C water, capping first off, let them be to next day, you can then shake the combs empty.

But those wax combs. They will be collapsed. I have tried.

The most easy way to clean those combs is go give 4 combs to the artificual swarm. You make an artificial swarm and you put the new hive 5 fondations, 4 crystallized combs and one brood frame. And the queen. Put brood frame innrhe middke of crysrallized frames. After a week bees have...

You cannot liguefy crystallized combs any more.

No, never. You loose honey but most of all valuable combs. I have made several times list of ways to clean the combs. But where are those texts?

Strong colonies swarm first. But it is races too, when they start swarming. Carniolans swarm first. Italians later and hybrids between that.

OSR makes hives a little bit angry, but not mad.

BAd weathers and lack of yield is the main reason to start swarming. But swarming is bee colony's only habit to reproduce. There are many different factors why the colony starts swarming procedures My record year has been that hives swarmed 120%.