Perry
New Bee
- Joined
- May 9, 2011
- Messages
- 26
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- Location
- Twickenham
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 1
I was away for two weeks and left three supers on the brood box. The first was full. When I returned over the weekend I found the top two supers each about half full of capped frames. So I removed the capped frames and extracted the honey. I combined and left the partially full and uncapped frames into one super. Here is the interesting bit. The first super is no longer full, the centre frames have lots of empty cells. Ther are still a lot of bees. The frames in the brood box have lots of capped brood cells but no stores at all. What are the implications of this? When can I start treating for varroa? Will the girls lay down some stores in the brood frames? Or transfer honey from the first super? Confusing...