getting bees into super

[dpearce4]

hiya

i have put a super on one of my hives the bees are bearding even when its raining but they wont go into the super.

any suggestions?

 

[pandtpoultry]

From reading about this yesterday, should you spray the frames with a bit of syrup to get the bees to come up?

 

[dpearce4]

thats a pain i didnt want to make any syrup at the moment.

is it worth smearing a little honey from below onto 1 of the frames?

 

[WormSlayer]

Do you have a queen excluder under the super? My bees utterly ignored the super until I took the QE off for a few days and let HM get up there a bit.

 

[dpearce4]

yep i do because i dont want it to become brood if they start to draw it out.

 

[drstitson]

no faff making syrup - just put a couple of spoons of sugar in a sprayer with some water, shake and voila.

QE off for few days plus spary.

 

[Nic Rhodes]

feeding not necessary but a 99p sprayer with just some sugar in water so it tastes sweet is all you need. Well worth having a water and syrup spray on hand. Cost pennies but useful tools. Bought a bigger pressurized one yesterday from ALdi, splashing out as 2.99 .

 

[richardbees]

ditto drstitson's advice

I've a 750 ml spray bottle (ex- Astonish sink cleaner) containing some 1lb sugar / i pt water mix. It works a treat to encourage bees onto new foundation....

 

[MrB]

I have found they cant resist a couple of drops of lemon grass oil on the top bars of a couple of frames!

 

[dpearce4]

feeding not necessary but a 99p sprayer with just some sugar in water so it tastes sweet is all you need. Well worth having a water and syrup spray on hand. Cost pennies but useful tools. Bought a bigger pressurized one yesterday from ALdi, splashing out as 2.99 .

can i pi*s u off lol

i bought a load of those trigger sprays and pressure ones last october for school from wilkinsons they were selling them off at the end of the season. i payed 5p for the trigger ones and 10p for the pressure ones.

trouble is they are at work 27miles away so not so good lol lol lol

 

[Nic Rhodes]

Just need to spend that 5 pounds to drive to work

 

[drstitson]

don't you keep duplicate bee bits in the car?

 

[Dishmop]

don't you keep duplicate bee bits in the car?

I would,


but I bet if a situation arose, they'd be in my other car.

 

[richardbees]

dpearce

just mix a spoon of sugar with some hot water in a cup and dribble it down through the hole in your cover board onto the new super.

Make sure you don't spill any outside.....wasps!

richard

 

[dpearce4]

Just need to spend that 5 pounds to drive to work

wish it were that cheep costs me 80 every 10days and i dont even drive hard.

bloody petrol prices!!!!

 

[biglongdarren]

had the same problem,i bruised the store cappings in the brood box and took the queen excluder off for a day and they went up near right away.
Darren

 

[dpearce4]

don't you keep duplicate bee bits in the car?

my apiary is at home so no not at the moment.

as a kit wat would u suggest keeping in the car. im thinking skep, smoker, spray bottle, suit, towel. bottle of water for me (suit gets way to hot lol). anything else?

 

[colinlee]

bees into supers

hi,
having had this problem ,
the bees are reluctant to go up into the super frames with new foundation.the way it worked for me is just add a couple of frames of new foundation then as they draw these frames add a couple more but keeping the non-drawn over the brood nest and working outwards once they start to draw out .then with following supers add a drawn frame with two of foundation and then work as above ..
if you are super strong you could run with just brood boxes and no supers or vise versa !!

 

[beeatshellards]

don't you keep duplicate bee bits in the car?

my car is so full of bee stuff its like a portable bee shed

 

[dpearce4]

my car is so full of bee stuff its like a portable bee shed

that dont help lol. what should be in there.