Post by sonny on Jun 17, 2015 21:06:24 GMT -7
I created a problem...
A few weeks ago I added 2 supers of empty frames to 2 deep boxes, knowing it might be a while before I come back to check on things. There was a day in between where there was no queen excluder, but I put it on thinking there wouldn't be a queen up top since there was no drawn comb. That was 4 weeks ago, about the same time we added a son to our family. The hive got neglected while we were adjusting to life. I opened it tonight and found both supers FULL. 75% capped honey, and 25% brood. The bottom two boxes are FULL of capped honey and no brood. Sounds like I made a bad assumption on the location of the queen when the excluder went on.
So now, what to do? I don't want to split and make another hive. One is enough for now. The brood frames are about 4 years old. Can that honey be eaten? My thought was to extract most of it, then shake the entire population back down there and put the excluder back on.
Thoughts?
A few weeks ago I added 2 supers of empty frames to 2 deep boxes, knowing it might be a while before I come back to check on things. There was a day in between where there was no queen excluder, but I put it on thinking there wouldn't be a queen up top since there was no drawn comb. That was 4 weeks ago, about the same time we added a son to our family. The hive got neglected while we were adjusting to life. I opened it tonight and found both supers FULL. 75% capped honey, and 25% brood. The bottom two boxes are FULL of capped honey and no brood. Sounds like I made a bad assumption on the location of the queen when the excluder went on.
So now, what to do? I don't want to split and make another hive. One is enough for now. The brood frames are about 4 years old. Can that honey be eaten? My thought was to extract most of it, then shake the entire population back down there and put the excluder back on.
Thoughts?
