Inconsistant comb on foundation

[JurassicApiary]

Inspected these girls again yesterday. The frames and new comb they?re drawing in the brood box is beautiful and as desired. I couldn?t be happier with the end result.

Most of the brood from the offending frames that I pulled up into the super above the QE have hatched and the girls are now storing nectar in them. Oddly I found two capped queen cells on those offending frames that they made AFTER I moved the frames up above the QE. There are no queen cells in the brood box. I visually verified the queen is present and she is laying well (better than before actually now that they?ve drawn out proper comb!) so I presume the nurse bees likely became confused when I moved the brood to the upper box and they detected less of the queen pheromone up there and made them???  I figured since there were no supercedure cells in the brood box itself where they would be under normal circumstances that this was a false alarm so I removed those two cells.

As they?re filling the offending frames with nectar now and bridging between them (as they?ve been doing before?they?re quite stubborn!) I want to begin to weed out those frames from the top without them bridging everything in the super, so I put in 5 new frames/foundation and a division board all snug and proper. This alternative use of the division board will prevent them from bridging the 4th offending frame to the new frame and breaks the chain so to speak. On the other side of the division board is the 4 remaining offending frames with oversized and bridged comb. Now the top is as snug as can bee with only bee space between the oversized ones.  I have the division board slots open all the way to the workers can pass through and of course they can also access it through the QE from below. Either they?re going to cap that nectar and I?m going to get honey in those offending frames or I?m going to eventually pull them out and let them rob the nectar before I render the wax and recycle the frames.
At the end of the day, I?m really pleased with how this has turned out. I?ve learned a lot with this hive in the last month.  I forgot to take a pic of the super with the division board setup?will try to remember during the next inspection. 


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[TheHoneyPump]

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[Bob Wilson]

Honey Pump. Your meme choice is showing your age. 

[TheHoneyPump]

We were just watching recently on netflix.  ;)