Queen in honey supers

[katmike]

This year seems to be the worst as far as the queen moving up and laying in the supers on multiple hives. I run 2 deeps for the brood area.

I have added supers with drawn comb (I don't like excluders) before and didn't have as much of a problem as I have this year. Maybe I've been lucky and this year with the cool and rainy spring I'm seeing some different behaviors...

What would be the expected outcome IF I removed all the super frames of brood and swapped with full frames of honey (creating a honey barrier directly above the natural brood area), THEN place the frames of brood above that? I know that breaking up the brood nest is a general no-no, but I am talking about a very small % of the overall brood. I would hope the only outcome would be the brood in the super eventually hatch out and would then be replaced with more honey.

[Countryboy]

What would be the expected outcome IF I removed all the super frames of brood and swapped with full frames of honey (creating a honey barrier directly above the natural brood area), THEN place the frames of brood above that?

If there are any eggs with the top brood, they maythink they are queenless and make a new queen.

I tried something similar to that this year. I middle supered with two supers of undrawn comb (plastic foundation and foundationless frames) to create a barrier the queen wouldn't cross. Both hives I tried it with made a second queen, giving me 2 laying queens in my hives. :thumbsup:

[Michael Palmer]

What would be the expected outcome IF I removed all the super frames of brood and swapped with full frames of honey (creating a honey barrier directly above the natural brood area)....

That would work. I always put my supers...2 mediums...on early. The bottom one usually winds up with some brood. When I re-super, I reverse the supers placing the one with brood on top, and the one with honey on the bottom. Then add another empty on the top.

[Ross]

When the flow gets rolling, they will back fill each cell with nectar as it hatches. You don't have to do anything. The bees will push her down with nectar.