I posted a month or so ago about one of my hives being packed with honey on the upper deep with absolutely no brood up there. Almost 100% brood in the lower and almost 100% honey in the upper. It was suggested that I need to add honey supers ASAP or they might swarm. I did this and it seems as though things have settled down and the bees are slowly drawing out the honey super. I assumed that the reason that the queen wasn't laying brood up top was because they needed more space for honey. However:
I have another hive that I Just added a second deep to about a month ago. I pulled one brood frame up to the top to draw them up. There were a few drawn out frames that I threw in as well but otherwise they were starting with an empty deep. Today, on inspection, I see that they have it about 60% full of honey and have not added any brood at all - just some brood on the one frame that I pulled from the bottom. Now im confused as I assumed that if they had plenty of room for both brood and honey up top, they would continue to expand the brood frames. Is this not the case? Why are only expanding with honey and not brood?
I have another hive that I Just added a second deep to about a month ago. I pulled one brood frame up to the top to draw them up. There were a few drawn out frames that I threw in as well but otherwise they were starting with an empty deep. Today, on inspection, I see that they have it about 60% full of honey and have not added any brood at all - just some brood on the one frame that I pulled from the bottom. Now im confused as I assumed that if they had plenty of room for both brood and honey up top, they would continue to expand the brood frames. Is this not the case? Why are only expanding with honey and not brood?