same location 2 different super results.

[malgreen]

2 hives double brood boxes full of bees and lots of capped brood, no sign of any queen cells in either. 1st super's put on 18 days ago. Super in Hive 1 which was always the heavier hive from the start was full and have added another super. Hive 2 nothing but a couple of dozen bees up in the super so nothing at all. Any ideas why this should be. Same queen excluder on both hives? Both sets of bees were extremely tolerant during the inspection. Maybe should I remove qx in the empty super hive for a couple of days to encourage bees to go up perhaps ?

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

should I remove qx in the empty super hive for a couple of days to encourage bees to go up perhaps ?

No - you've said already that there are some bees up there - they will use the space when they need it, too much hand wringing about this apocryphal 'bees don't like to pass the excluder' tales.
Two hives are seldom the same, queen in one may be slower in laying, there may be more workers in one hive than the other, they may not be foraging the same area, they may be later risers so other bees get there first,

 

[malgreen]

That's really interesting especially about the late risers because the sun hits the lighter hive about 30 minutes later in the morning. thanks for reply.
Got to dash out to work now.

 

[Beefriendly]

Or one lot may be simply useless idle barstewrads and the others highly ethical workers....
Not all bees or bee types are honey monsters.