Got new comb, now what?

Started by Pi, August 16, 2005, 03:20:58 PM

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Pi

I'm a beginner with two blossoming hives.  I started out with a couple of two pound packages in the spring.  

I have recently placed a honey super on each hive with a hive top feeder full of corn syrup on each one (the nectar flow is over in these parts).  Within two weeks they have built me twenty frames of very nice comb.  My question is what to do with this comb now?  How do I clean them out and store them for next spring?  

It's been suggested that I place them above the inner cover, but since I have a top feeder I can't do this.  It has also been suggested that hang the comb some distance from the hive and let the bees clean it out.  Won't this cause a feeding frenzy with twenty frames?  Should I just leave them on over the winter?  I'd like to build up a couple more supers of frames before winter.

I could use some ideas.  Thanks!

stilllearning

are you sure there is no honey flow going on at this time from a surprise source.   bees dont normally build un-needed comb
Wayne Cole

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Quote from: Pi
It's been suggested that I place them above the inner cover, but since I have a top feeder I can't do this.

Take top feeder away, or why it is there all the time?


QuoteIt has also been suggested that hang the comb some distance from the hive and let the bees clean it out.


It is dangerous for beginner. It may start robering which you can't stop.


QuoteI'd like to build up a couple more supers of frames before winter.!

It is not wise at all press bees to build combs because it needs pollen for wax exrecetion.  

If you do have honey flow, don't try to draw upp foundations. It has no sence.

You can put that super on the top for winter and take extra room away from hive. If it is medium I should do that deep is on the top and medium beneath it. You have summer left there and bees will arrange winter food for their best. When brood emerges they store honey from bottom to brood area.

At spring you have empty super.

How many boxes you have now and ho many you are going to leave for winter?

Do you feed winter sugar once or keep feeding all the time?