Queen laying in super - What should I do ?

[Mark in Kansas]

I reversed the brood boxes a few weeks ago (maybe a month), and left a medium super of honey (low-grade late season honey) to make it through all the chilly days of March. Also added a hive-top feeder with a pollen patty on one side, 1:1 syrup on the other.

OK, popped the hive yesterday, and the lower brood box is now mostly honey, the upper brood box is part honey/pollen and some brood, and the queen is laying in the medium super ! Like, big-time!

Should I do anything ? Should I move that medium super down ? I took the pollen patty out, as it was nasty and the bees weren't consuming it. They are still taking some syrup.

[katmike]

Did you notice where the queen was when you reversed? If she's in the lower already, no real need to reverse. Plus, the brood box that was full of honey (assuming it was full of honey when you reversed) would have made a natural honey barrier.

[franktrujillo]

you need to remove frames of honey and place some empty frames...you have honey in there so you don't need to feed...she needs to have room to lay eggs or they will get honey bound and prepare to swarm because no room....i like to make splits since there is extra stores making queen cells to replace wintered over queens most likely they wont make another winter...

[HONEYDEW]

I reversed the brood boxes a few weeks ago (maybe a month), and left a medium super of honey (low-grade late season honey) to make it through all the chilly days of March. Also added a hive-top feeder with a pollen patty on one side, 1:1 syrup on the other.

OK, popped the hive yesterday, and the lower brood box is now mostly honey, the upper brood box is part honey/pollen and some brood, and the queen is laying in the medium super ! Like, big-time!

find the queen in the honey super put her down in the brood nest put a queen excluder on the brood will hatch out of the honey super then the bees will start filling it with honey, and NEVER feed sugar water while your Honey supers are on because what you said about the bees filling everything in with honey is wrong, they filled everything in with cured sugar water

OMTCW