honey bound???

[Rich V]

It seems my bees are filling up the comb faster then the queen. I removed the feeder on the first of the month when the weather got nice, but still I have more honey then eggs. I have no drawn comb to put in. What else can I do.

[Finsky]

It seems my bees are filling up the comb faster then the queen. I removed the feeder on the first of the month when the weather got nice, but still I have more honey then eggs. I have no drawn comb to put in. What else can I do.

Give foundations. Bees get pollen and honey from nature and build combs. So they do in tree trunks.

If you have food frame stoo much, take them away for some times. Put them in dry place. In small colony bees can draw upp only those foundations which they can keep warm in hive temperature. So it unnecessary to warm upp food frames.

Keep the room proper. Not tight or vain space. Colony will expand when new bees emerge.  

It is difficult if bees get too much honey from field. Only way is to get swarm or more bees that they can nurse brood and gather honey. In my experience  2 box of bees are capable for that. It is 8 lbs bees. One box makes difficulties.  If you have 2 box bees, you will get honey in normal manner and you get the price of bees back in same year.