supers

[ITstings]

Hello, Checked supers on hives today. One was Filled with honey and capped .It was only on for ten days.But the other one, Queen went crazy and has brood in almost all of it but half a frame. She has filled two deeps and med super.What do i need to do to get them to fill with honey? Thanks for the Help

[MapMan]

Your queen is supercharged. Put on another super, but in this case you might place a queen excluder below the supers, making certain that the queen is below...

If she is laying so well, you might also want to do a walk away split, adding empty frames to the queen colony so she won't feel like swarming to find more room to lay. The new colony with plenty of brood of all ages (including just laid eggs) should be able raise their own queen, and build up early enough to go through the winter in your area. What you want now is to avoid the queen departing because of lack of space.


MM

[Ravenseye]

I would add a super and let the honey continue to come in. If you're worried about more brood in the new super, put that excluder on but you may not need it at this point. If you do use an excluder and you put a super of foundation over it, add one of those brood frames in the box (make sure the queen is not on the frame). That'll help the bees to cross the excluder and when the brood hatches out, you're back to just a honey super again.