what to do with a full box of 14*12 stores?

[maddydog]

Initiated a Bailey comb change recently and due to an industrious colony and an enforced two week absence I have a full box of honey/nectar (mostly uncapped). I've not got the required extraction equipment. Yesterday I added a couple of shallows as supers and reversed the boxes (the 14*12 now on the bottom) and left the std deep so the q can continue to lay. Will the bees naturally use up/move the stores?

Thanks

 

[oliver90owner]

Especially if you bruise the cappings - a bit at a time, I would suggest - if necessary.

If it is granulated it may be slooow.

 

[maddydog]

Thanks RAB

Just a thought but if I give the colony a good smoking will the engorged bees be encouraged to move the stores up or does it make little difference? Don't recall reading anywhere how the bees deposit the honey once the ‘dust/smoke‘ has settled

Cheers

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Thanks RAB

Just a thought but if I give the colony a good smoking will the engorged bees be encouraged to move the stores up

No, just leave them to it

 

[TryingToLetThemBee]

You're lucky: I have a box full of pollen. Wasting it is going to break my heart.

 

[YorkshireBees]

You're lucky: I have a box full of pollen. Wasting it is going to break my heart.

Why waste it? Store it for June gap / autumn.

 

[TryingToLetThemBee]

Because the reason for the change was nosema. May not be a problem (thymol has brought them back to the point they swarmed out of a nuc) but it might be a false economy

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

And do you want thymolised syrup in your nice new super of honey?

 

[TryingToLetThemBee]

And do you want thymolised syrup in your nice new super of honey?

Haha. No danger of a crop from that lot this year now they've swarmed. They were/are a reserve (now in the form of 2 Q? nucs) for Buckybeast. That's where my honey's coming from.

Just to be clear JBM; I'm not the OP so will shut up.