I have been keeping bees for almost 14yrs. I have 7 Lang hives. Today we robbed them and I had 3 frames that had small patches of brood (golf ball size spots) and 2 with beautiful patches of pollen on them. Never had this before... maybe a 'cell' or two of brood but never had patches of pollen..
How do you 'cut' out the brood with out making a mess and will the honey be effected by the pollen? Thank you.
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1) Lift the frames to top most and let bees emerge
2) You may extract frames. Put a grease paper patch over the brood. Glue it with honey. Brood will stay in cells in extracting.