Down into the brood box that's where its goes,
Hi Winker,
I will be taking 2/3 supers off of some 14x12 hives this weekend to extract OSR and when I do I will stick at least 1 empty super on each hive so the bees that are displaced have some room. When I put the wet ones back on a couple of days later I was going to put them above the crown board and I expect the bees to clean them and put whatever they find in the recently added super as the brood box is full of............. well, brood.
Once clean I will put at least 2 of them back on as well and the other one into store.
Am I doing something wrong. Why would they put it in the brood box.
Last year I just put them back on and let them refill them but they didnt need them all, the way they are going at the moment and the amount of bees in some hives they just might.
Another query I struggled with last year was when I removed the summer crop and pushed all the bees down in to the brood so I could treat for varroa they wouldnt all fit as they were displaced from 2 / 3 supers.
This being my 3rd summer at this I was hoping to get it right, 1st year no honey so........ no problem !
Cheers
I don't give them a super of dawn comb for space, I give them a super of Cut comb foundation to draw out, and put the wet supers on above that. Then take them off 24 hours latter and they are all cleaned up. The bees either use it up there and then making wax to draw out the cut comb foundation or they store it in the Broad box and use it as normal stores.
Edit:
If I don't want Cut Cut comb foundation drawn I replace the Cut Comb Foundation for wire foundation to be drawn. It gives the bees something to do once the OSR is finished, IMHO it keeps there mind off swarming for a while longer.