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Apologies for the late reply, I haven’t last week. I will check today, weather permitting.

thank you . I will try to be patient then and do as suggested above. Glad I haven’t done anything drastic and hopefully they know best what they re doing .

Thank you for your ample answer. I will rejig the frames in the brood box at the next inspection and see what I find in the super. Before this situation I had 4 brood frames , and the colony increased considerably. Then the lime tree bloomed, and looks like they prefer to store than draw...

Happy with that but I am missing BAS , except capped brood and no empty cells for her to lay. Should I just be patient ?

11 in total : 2 new frames - foundation not drawn, placed at the ends 2 new foundation partially drawn, only centres, wet honey 1 wild comb - I attached to a empty frame with mostly capped brood. (they’ve build a wax sheet between an old frame and a foundation frame) 6 old : 2.5 capped about to...

Forgot to mention, almost all drawn and used brood frames have capped honey at the corners.

Brood box : 2 partially drawn full of wet honey, 2. 5 capped brood even pattern, capped honey in the corners , rest mixture of wet honey and pollen

It is ! I saw her she s doing fine !

Good morning, a bit of advice please. context : This is my first year keeping bees. I started with 6 frames end of May. When they arrived the queen had no room to lay, I had 2 frames of capped brood and the rest honey and pollen. It took them 2 weeks to start drawing comb and the queen is...