going to get into the 50's today and I am thinking of going and check stores. I have 6 or 7 super frames (the 6 inch ones) of fall honey that I could give them. Can I put the smaller frames in the big boxes? will they make a huge mess of burr comb? What can I do?
thanks
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Bees start laying in upper frames.
Put the honey frames under the brood box. Bees lift gradually the honey up and consume it.
If you just want to feed them some honey it should be fine, the frames shouldn't be in there too long, so burr comb shouldn't be much of a problem. You could just put a whole super on or place individual frames with existing frames, just don't forget they're there or you will have problems. I've just laid a few frames of honey as feed inside a box right on top of cluster. Depending on temps and existing stores it can be gone in a couple days. Remember that once started its important not to stop feeding (until Spring flowers).
Did you say they have no stores right now or your still gonna check, being the reason to give them this honey right now??
thomas
They wont build comb right now; tis not the season yet in your area. Just don't forget them there.
a few years back i stumbles on a couple of full med supers that got overlooked during extraction time the previous fall. I decided to use them to feed splits in deep hive bodies. I made 2 and 3 frame splits with queens and 2 or three of thes med frames on the outside edges. In my rush I didn't mark these. The bee's did fine with them. They used the honey and drew new comb off the bottoms nice and straight to the depth of the deep frames. When I stumbled on a colony with these I just moved them to the out side edge of the brood nest and waited for them to empty, removed them and scraped the new comb off the bottom