How to get queen to move up

[tom]

Hello all i have a couple of hives with a second deep on them but the queen has not moved up into them the bottom brood nest is full of bees and brood. Now one of them i found the queen up top so i guess she is going to lay up there but i have another one but the bees are back filling it with pollen and nectar what can i do to get her to move up into the top brood to lay.

Thomas Yancey :?

[Kathyp]

whats up there? 

[Old Blue]

If your bottom boxes are good and full then I would take 3 frames from the center of the bottom box and relocate them to the center of the top box.  Then take the 3 empty frames that you displaced from the top box, and put 1 in the center of the bottom box and split the other 2 on the outside ends.  This will get them instantly used to using the top box and move a good chunk of the hive up there and inspire them to quickly draw out the empty center frame in the bottom box.

Old Blue
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[tom]

They are on drawn comb and thanks i will do this the next sunny day so i can move broodfrom the middle and place them i the center in the top box and she will start laying up top sounds good to me.

Thomas Yancey :-D

[Michael Bush]

If you move three brood combs up into the second box she will move up.  If it's like this now (where H is honey and B is brood and E is empty:

HBBBBBBBBH

Then you make it something like this:

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HEBBEBBBEH

[yockey5]

I hope to being doing this in about 3 weeks. Hoping for a better, drier spring than last year.

[1of6]

The recommendations here to 'pyramid up' are excellent ones.