New guy question

Started by jtcmedic, May 09, 2016, 12:47:24 PM

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jtcmedic

Ok here it is had a queen less hive and   She is laying now but the bees were building decent before I figured out she was queen less and then stopped taking feed and I took out feeder and put on a super med with empty plastic frames 2 weeks ago. Still not touching the super and have 2 open(no wax)frame in bottom deep and 2 in the top deep, should I pull off the super and add sugar water to get them back on track? Since last inspection there is now 4 frames(have 10 frame deep) of capped brood and new queen is filling them but don't seem to be building. Sorry for ramble

BeeMaster2

Move the empty frames into the brood area with a  couple of brood frames in between them. Then in another week or so add your super. If your super were the same as your brood frames, I would say move a frame of honey up into the super. This would make the decision for the bees to move into the super. And yes the bees do have to make the decision to move up when there is an empty super above the brood. Sometimes they do and sometimes they decide to swarm.
This is why I run all medium boxes. I can just move a frame up to speed up the process.
Jim
Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.
Ben Franklin

jtcmedic

What if I put the super on the bottom? This new queen each of the last checks has been found in the top deep. And I did what you suggested on the empties. What about sugar water again?
Thanks
Jeff 

BeeMaster2

As long as they are in the wax building mode, the sugar water is fine but you will find that they will start filling in the new wax pretty quickly after it is built. If they were not using the sugar water, it is because they have a good flow on and you do not want to be feeding, it usually just goes bad sitting in the jar.
Jim
Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.
Ben Franklin

jtcmedic

Little update
Queen is looking great nice pattern, she likes the top brood box ,bottom box  is looking ok a lot hatching on the bottom. Still no movement to super, question is if I was to split brood box  (deep, med super with foundation ,deep) would it  promote start of comb or mess it up.
Thanks for reading

BeeMaster2

The important thing is to not give them too much space to protect. If they are covering most of the hive, then it is time to add space.
It sounds like you do not have enough bees to cover what you have.
Jim
Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.
Ben Franklin