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beepig

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I have been a plonker. In my haste to allow my bees to finish off two of my supers i moved the queen excluder up. Now i have an empty brood box and the two supers above it have both honey and brood in. There is also a full super of honey on top of those.
So now having moved the excluder back, i have a brood box and two supers with a queen excluder on top and a super of honey on top of that.
Any suggestions of what i can do please;
 
Thanks will do later today. So to be clear. floor followed by the two supers followed by brood box followed by queen excluder followed by nearly full super of honey followed by crown board.
Will i be able to leave those bottom supers there for the winter now dya think. as both contain substantial amounts of honey
 
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Any suggestions of what i can do please;

Put the empty brood box in the shed ready for next Spring and let them consolidate their existing brood nest, seems pointless moving them around like a game of musical chairs.
 
Put the empty brood box in the shed ready for next Spring and let them consolidate their existing brood nest, seems pointless moving them around like a game of musical chairs.

Sorry to confuse you but that is what I would do to. You have the two options
1) leave them in the three supers for winter and take the brood box off for the moment. Add that in spring and remove the empty supers. Eventually they will move up into the brood box and then you make sure the queen is in it and put things back as they should be
2) put the bb over the supers as you described and let them move everything back into it removing the supers as they empty them so that you are left with a brood box, QE and super. Then put THAT super underneath the brood box without any QE and leave it like that for the winter I.e. Floor super bb
Hope this helps
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Thanks all. I have done all that today. floor super super brood q/e super crown. May need to emprty top super very soon as almost capped and replace readyt for ivy onslaught..
 
If you want to extract your super I would do it now, as ivy is out here now.

With two supers (sorry, got to say nadirs) under brood I wouldn't put another on top.

For me ivy honey is going into the brood box for winter stores.
 

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