Brood in super

[Joey Wahoo]

Newbie here with a dumb question:

I left a super on for the winter, just to give the girls a little extra honey in case they needed it. Today when I checked it, I saw that there is brood in it. I hadn't planned on that.

My questions: what do I do with this super now? I have two deep bodies below it. Can these frames be used for honey now? Should I put a queen excluder on and add another super above it?

Thanks in advance for the advice...

[Velbert]

yes place a excluder under the super make sure the queen is below the excluder. (find the queen or place a empty shell on top of your hive and shake all bees off the frame in the super in the shell that you placed on top check each frame making sure no queen is on the frame even after shaking I have seen at times the queen will not shake off) make sure there is brood below the excluder also if you do put a queen excluder check back in a week and check for emergency queen cells I have seen lots of time they will start building them when placing a excluder under a brood and the queen does not have access to it. YES THE SUPER IS STILL GOOD FOR HONEY

[Michael Bush]

You can put the queen below the excluder and probably get away with if if there is brood down there. If not, they might abandon here and just raise a new one above. And yes, they might raise a queen above anyway, but at least they won't abandon the old one.

You could also just wait until they move down on their own, which they will do once they've filled the super with brood.

[okb]

Same thing happened to me but I made Splits from them.