Well I was paranoid about my first colony not making it through the winter and it looks like I may have been too helpful with the feeding.
It looks like I screwed up by leaving my winter feeder-spacer on too long on top of three medium supers and now the girls have filled it with lobes of comb & brood connecting down to the top of my frames. Any suggestions of what to do now?? It’s packed with bees, and seeing brood tells me there's a good chance the queens in there between the lobes of comb. I'm tempted to just scrape them off into the top super, cover it up and hope for the best. Or should I set it in a new super and do an ugly split of sorts? should I look for the queen?
It looks like I screwed up by leaving my winter feeder-spacer on too long on top of three medium supers and now the girls have filled it with lobes of comb & brood connecting down to the top of my frames. Any suggestions of what to do now?? It’s packed with bees, and seeing brood tells me there's a good chance the queens in there between the lobes of comb. I'm tempted to just scrape them off into the top super, cover it up and hope for the best. Or should I set it in a new super and do an ugly split of sorts? should I look for the queen?