I recently installed 2 5 frame nucs
All is good. Lots of brood and they are packing honey everywhere they can.
But the frames I got with my nucs are real messy. I’m assuming they were used as deep honey frames before because they are built out way thicker then the other frames. And I almost can’t get 10 frames into the brood box with these frames in. I’ve tried cleaning them up by scraping some of the comb off the frame but it’s not just the edges it’s the whole comb. If I put 10 frames in the combs are basically touching each other all the way. On the nuc frames are least.
I’m planning on adding honey supers next week if they have started building comb on the 9th and 10th frame.
Can I put a frame or two of the nuc frames in the honey super above the excluder and let them hatch out and then replace the frame?
Only drawn comb I have is what the bees have drawn this year and what came with the nuc.
All is good. Lots of brood and they are packing honey everywhere they can.
But the frames I got with my nucs are real messy. I’m assuming they were used as deep honey frames before because they are built out way thicker then the other frames. And I almost can’t get 10 frames into the brood box with these frames in. I’ve tried cleaning them up by scraping some of the comb off the frame but it’s not just the edges it’s the whole comb. If I put 10 frames in the combs are basically touching each other all the way. On the nuc frames are least.
I’m planning on adding honey supers next week if they have started building comb on the 9th and 10th frame.
Can I put a frame or two of the nuc frames in the honey super above the excluder and let them hatch out and then replace the frame?
Only drawn comb I have is what the bees have drawn this year and what came with the nuc.