Feeding for comb?

[RangerBrad]

Do many of you take advantage of dearths and such when you are feeding to put on supers of blank foundation so the bees will draw comb then set it out later to be harvested free range back to the hive by the bees simply to add drawn comb to the foundation that you can use the next spring to increase the honey crop instead of the nectar being used to produce wax? Thank's, Brad

[Finski]

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Bees do not draw combs for to be stored. They fill cells and rrad up cell according nectar flow.

S you want to fill combs with sugar and deminish the brood area.

When you have summer, let the bees make their combs without your goals.

"encourage bees to draw combs makes no sence.

I have  now a splended nectar flow. Normal hive draw three boxes foundation in one week.  then you extract the combs and you have empty combs to return to the hive to be filled again or to be stored over witer.

Combs full of sugar? - mere troubles.

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[sc-bee]

I have a friend who raises queens. He feeds after the flow for the hives to draw out foundation for his next years nucs. He lets the bees draw the frames and then he moves them away for the bees to rob out. He says that way he is recycling the sugar again.

I tried it and it didn't work for me. I ask where I went wrong and he said you had to start the feeding when the flow tapers and not completely stops or they will not draw the extra comb( I believe he places whole supers of comb on). He may even use 5 frame nucs with another 5 frame on top, I know he runs alot of nucs.

I have been wondering about placing comb just outside the brood nest and feeding and then removing the frames for them to rob out etc.

[AR Beekeeper]

I am feeding to draw comb now but in my case it is deep frames that I will use in nucs next spring.  You can do as you suggested but it is expensive in sugar and labor.  Comb for honey supers is probably most economically drawn during a nectar flow.

I find the bees draw the combs fastest when the foundations are placed between combs that have brood in them and they are in the top box of a second story brood chamber.