Ivor Kemp
House Bee
- Joined
- Jul 12, 2010
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- Location
- Poole, Dorset
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 4
Hope you can help.
Did my first full inspection yesterday lunchtime, although I had put feed in about a month ago in an empty super below the crown board, and everything was normal then.
My set up is floor/brood and a half/empty super/crown board/roof.
When I opened the hive yesterday I discovered six or seven extensive combs drawn from the top of the crown board with lots of brood.
They have obviously gone mad in the last month and run out of room and with no queen excluder the queen has obviously been laying in this comb on the crown board.
For the moment I have put on a queen excluder and two supers with drawn comb frames and left the crown board with the comb on top as usual.
Question is what to do next.
Ensure the queen is back in the brood chamber (below the queen excluder) and leave the crown board as it is for them to sort out?
Move the empty super and crown board back down (put another crown board on top of the hive) to above the brood chamber and put the queen excluder on top of that?
Shake the bees from this comb into the brood chamber and take the comb off brood and all?
Many thanks.
Did my first full inspection yesterday lunchtime, although I had put feed in about a month ago in an empty super below the crown board, and everything was normal then.
My set up is floor/brood and a half/empty super/crown board/roof.
When I opened the hive yesterday I discovered six or seven extensive combs drawn from the top of the crown board with lots of brood.
They have obviously gone mad in the last month and run out of room and with no queen excluder the queen has obviously been laying in this comb on the crown board.
For the moment I have put on a queen excluder and two supers with drawn comb frames and left the crown board with the comb on top as usual.
Question is what to do next.
Ensure the queen is back in the brood chamber (below the queen excluder) and leave the crown board as it is for them to sort out?
Move the empty super and crown board back down (put another crown board on top of the hive) to above the brood chamber and put the queen excluder on top of that?
Shake the bees from this comb into the brood chamber and take the comb off brood and all?
Many thanks.
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