merylvingien
Field Bee
- Joined
- Aug 5, 2009
- Messages
- 536
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- Location
- Near Andover Hampshire
- Hive Type
- Commercial
- Number of Hives
- 7
Hi Folks, been a while since i had time to look on here, been killing plenty of wasps.
Had a look through my hive at the top of my garden yesterday, it has had a super on for about 3 weeks now. They are starting to draw out the super, but not complete yet.
However there is plenty of honey stored in the brood frames downstairs with the outer frames being all honey stores.
I have read on here that uncapping some of this may prompt them to move it into the super?
So on one frame i ran the hive tool across the capped honey, basicly just scratching some of the cell cappings.
Is this enough to encourage them to draw out the rest of the super frames and shift the honey up? Or do i need to do something else?
Many thanks for replies in advance.
Had a look through my hive at the top of my garden yesterday, it has had a super on for about 3 weeks now. They are starting to draw out the super, but not complete yet.
However there is plenty of honey stored in the brood frames downstairs with the outer frames being all honey stores.
I have read on here that uncapping some of this may prompt them to move it into the super?
So on one frame i ran the hive tool across the capped honey, basicly just scratching some of the cell cappings.
Is this enough to encourage them to draw out the rest of the super frames and shift the honey up? Or do i need to do something else?
Many thanks for replies in advance.