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This is just a gentle reminder to beginners on brood and a half or double brood, if you want to move back to a single brood box to give you a bit more kit for artificial swarming etc. now is the time that you should be looking at removing the bottom brood box or super. You should find that the bees have moved up to the top box. You need to remove the bottom box before the queen starts laying although all is not lost if she has started in the bottom box.
On a cold day gently crack the two box' s apart, look in between them and if there are no bees between the box' s then gently and quietly lift the top box clear, if you have help then get your helper to quickly check the bees are not in the bottom box and to remove it, take this opportunity to brush dead bees off the floor, gently replace the top box on to the floor again and you should be all done and dusted!
Others will doubtless give their opinion but this is how I do it.
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On a cold day gently crack the two box' s apart, look in between them and if there are no bees between the box' s then gently and quietly lift the top box clear, if you have help then get your helper to quickly check the bees are not in the bottom box and to remove it, take this opportunity to brush dead bees off the floor, gently replace the top box on to the floor again and you should be all done and dusted!
Others will doubtless give their opinion but this is how I do it.
E