I'm new at beekeeping. I installed a package on 4/20. About two weeks ago, I added a super for brood. I don't plan on harvesting honey this year.
I checked today to see if they had moved up and started working the new super. I went to pull one of the center frames and it was stuck. I couldn't pry it up with my hive tool. I had to use a frame puller. Let's just say, they were not happy.
What I found was they were drawing comb between the top bar of the lower and the bottom bar in the upper. Being new to this, I chickened out as I was being buzzed by a dozen or so, so I scraped off the comb on the bottom bar of frame I pulled and put it back in and closed it up. I was able to see they were working about four other frames in the upper super and I suspect they are attached to the top bars in the lower super as well.
Since this is for brood, should I go back in and scrape off the other frames and how do or can I stop this?
TIA!!
I checked today to see if they had moved up and started working the new super. I went to pull one of the center frames and it was stuck. I couldn't pry it up with my hive tool. I had to use a frame puller. Let's just say, they were not happy.
What I found was they were drawing comb between the top bar of the lower and the bottom bar in the upper. Being new to this, I chickened out as I was being buzzed by a dozen or so, so I scraped off the comb on the bottom bar of frame I pulled and put it back in and closed it up. I was able to see they were working about four other frames in the upper super and I suspect they are attached to the top bars in the lower super as well.
Since this is for brood, should I go back in and scrape off the other frames and how do or can I stop this?
TIA!!