No space for Queen to lay

[Lesley Hoppy]

I have just two hives both on 14x12. Both with newly mated Queens - eggs are being laid.
However, despite having two supers on each - most with undrawn comb - admittedly - the bees are filling up the brood boxes with honey and there is now no space down there for the Queens to lay. Any advice please?

 

[enrico]

If you have any more frames, remove the full ones and store for winter feed and put new frames in place.
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[Finman]

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The hive is too small, and empty supers makes their life worse.

PLAN A

- Look, if you have there capped frames. Extract them.
- put the foundation box under the brood box.
- if you have a mesh floor, close it. Keep insulation on the inner cover.


Have you there brood at all, where hives can get more bees?

PLAN B

One way is that you put the queen lay into super and let the bees treat and cap the honey.

- so excluder, over it one super and the queen. Bees should start comb building in the super.

Foundation super under the brood box , I think that it is too cold to lay. I suppose that colony is small and it is becoming much smaller untill new bees emergre.

If you get a swarm, you may add bees to the colony.

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