does anyone know how much honey a good size hive will eat in 2 weeks.
i inspected my hive today and noticed that a lot of the capped honey was either already gone or in the process of being eating. i know they gorge on uncapped honey when you smoke them but since my last inspection {about 2 weeks } it seems that a lot of what was capped honey in the upper brood box is now empty comb. in fact 2 weeks ago thats all that was in the upper box was capped honey.
i even had to put on a super 3 or 4 weeks ago to give them more room however they never drew out any comb in the super and now there are several frames in the upper box that are empty.
is this normal or they about to swarm and loading up for the trip?
i did not check the frames in the bottom box for swarm cells like i should have. this being my first year i still get freaked out when something new is going on and forget what i'm doing. i saw empty comb so i put my hive top feeder on with 1:1 syrup thinking that they were hungry and maybe they would draw out they frames in the super with the syrup. but i'm not sure this was the right move.