Easier for bees? moving honey or drawing frames?

[WitchHazel]

Hi, I hope you don't mind me asking a newbie question.
Which is easier (less hard work) for the bees - moving honey from brood frames up into the supers, or drawing out new brood frames?

We were Queenless for a while, following a swarm leaving a queen cell. The new Queen has now started laying, but in the intervening few weeks the bees have filled a huge amount of the brood frames with stores. They have partially drawn out the supers, but haven't moved the stores up there.

They will need to make room in the brood box for the Queen to lay, and I was wondering whether to leave them to move the honey up into the supers themselves, or whether to take out a couple of frames of stores and replace with foundation.

Thanks in anticipation
Hazel

 

[Moggs]

If the stores are capped then lightly bruise the surface which will encourage them to shift it. Assuming that you have sufficient room upstairs (empty drawn super frames would be ideal of course).

 

[WitchHazel]

Thanks Moggs