How to reorganise supers?

[robmort]

A month ago one hive was quickly filling a 4th super placed underneath the others, even though the top 3 were not capped and the top 2 only partially capped. Now the top 2 have become lighter while the bottom 2 are heaviest. Seems the bad weather made them eat stores at the top and now they may be filling at the bottom again. Should I take the top 2 supers off and remove any capped frames and put any uncapped frames back at the bottom of the stack? Seems there's a risk of being left with a lot of uncapped frames

 

[Finman]

A month ago one hive was quickly filling a 4th super placed underneath the others, even though the top 3 were not capped and the top 2 only partially capped. Now the top 2 have become lighter while the bottom 2 are heaviest. Seems the bad weather made them eat stores at the top and now they may be filling at the bottom again. Should I take the top 2 supers off and remove any capped frames and put any uncapped frames back at the bottom of the stack? Seems there's a risk of being left with a lot of uncapped frames

The hive does not have enough bees to fill the boxes in classical order. They store the honey near the brood. And propably the flow has stopped long time ago, and bees consentrate the store near the brood space.

 

[Amari]

Yes, remove the capped frames and extract them. The flow has stopped in most areas now so you need to progressively reduce the number of supers and leave the uncapped honey for their winter stores. You could nadir the uncapped super(s) so that the bees will lift the honey into the BB.