Combining two brood to one

[Beelosser]

I am consolidating a hive to make a double brood single for over winter. But I will be left with a few brood frames with mostly uncapped honey. What can I do with it? I don’t have an extractor as I only do comb

 

[user 819]

Wrap in a bag and store it in a freezer, give it back as stores next spring.

 

[Curly green finger's]

I am consolidating a hive to make a double brood single for over winter. But I will be left with a few brood frames with mostly uncapped honey. What can I do with it? I don’t have an extractor as I only do comb

You could put it over a crown board with eke and they will take it down into the brood box.
Make sure the hole in the CB is small 1cm ish, if you have Porter bee escape hole use an old CD to make the hole smaller.

 

[Beelosser]

Thanks. Sorry if being thick, do you mean an eke big enough to hold a deep frame?

 

[fiat500bee]

Thanks. Sorry if being thick, do you mean an eke big enough to hold a deep frame?

I asked the same and got the same good advice a couple of weeks back. I only had one frame and just laid it down randomly in an eke. They got at both sides and scraped it completely dry

 

[Beelosser]

Of course. Just typical human thinking it all has to be straight and controlled. Makes perfect sense. If they can crawl into a plastic bag of fondant they can crawl round a frame and get to The food

 

[Curly green finger's]

Thanks. Sorry if being thick, do you mean an eke big enough to hold a deep frame?

Yes use an eke deep enough to take a brood frame on its side.. You could use some wedges to lie it on as spacers.

 

[Beelosser]

Thanks. Makes perfect sense