Honey bound tangle

[JonnyPicklechin]

Ive combined two colonies but have had some issue with a drone laying queen and with manipulations and the flow I've found I have a double brood with far too much honey and nectar.

Today, I've seen the lovely new BF queen I got from BS Honey Bees wiggling around and have tried to collect 4 frames with some free space for laying in the lower centre.

But watch should I do with the rest of it? The upper brood is being capped and is very heavy.

One thing I thought was to swap BBs with another hive and the try to distribute the honey nectar frames.

Should I handle uncapped new runny nectar ones differently to capped and more mature store frames?

PS I do see frames with pollen in but there are the normal number of those and feel comfortable with moving them to the outer parts of the BB.

 

[Erichalfbee]

If your extractor can handle brood frame’s you could wait for the bees to cap it or maybe freeze the frames for future use in splits?

 

[Millet]

If the extractor will take brood frames extract them and give the empty comb back to the bees..i had to do it last year to free up some space.

 

[eltalia]

John (?) are your boxes fulldepth (FD) or the little ones?

Bill