Chris Tel
New Bee
- Joined
- Jul 26, 2011
- Messages
- 25
- Reaction score
- 0
- Location
- Birmingham
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 18
Hi All,
On inspecting yesterday noticed that the BB of one of my hives was almost completely full so decided to convert the partially filled super above to give me a brood and half. However when changing the spacing of the super frames to brood spacing I noticed that in places adjacent combs are almost touching. Do I need to do anything and have I opened a can of worms by converting into a brood and half? I felt at the time by doing this I would give the queen more space to lay and also give them back their precious stores that I've been robbing (alleviating the need to start feeding them up for winter!)
Any advice would be much appreciated.
Chris
On inspecting yesterday noticed that the BB of one of my hives was almost completely full so decided to convert the partially filled super above to give me a brood and half. However when changing the spacing of the super frames to brood spacing I noticed that in places adjacent combs are almost touching. Do I need to do anything and have I opened a can of worms by converting into a brood and half? I felt at the time by doing this I would give the queen more space to lay and also give them back their precious stores that I've been robbing (alleviating the need to start feeding them up for winter!)
Any advice would be much appreciated.
Chris