Jimy Dee
House Bee
- Joined
- Mar 2, 2014
- Messages
- 270
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- Location
- Ireland
- Hive Type
- Commercial
- Number of Hives
- 6
I had a double nuc that had wild cross comb running across 2 frames, so 3 days ago I decided to sort it out and put the whole lot into a normal brood box (commercial) and take out the wild cross comb.
When I got stuck into the hive was messier than I originally expected and I had a good amount of cross comb and brace comb containing honey, which I removed from the hive. Not to waste the latter I put a small piece of plywood on top of the brood frames and put these “wild” bits and pieces of cross / brace comb containing honey on top of the frames. I put on a second empty brood box to accommodate the recycling of the honey. My expectation was that the bees would go up above their brood frames and take all the honey from these bits and scraps of wild comb containing honey and take the honey back down into the brood frames below. I inspected the hive this evening and my bees were lazily climbing all over these bits and scraps of comb “up stairs” and they had not removed or relocated any of the honey! There is a glorious ivy flow booming at the moment and the apiary is humming loudly with bees during the day times.
My question - how will I get the bees to take the honey from the cross/brace comb? There is a good bit of honey in it and I want the bees to get the benefit of it.
When I got stuck into the hive was messier than I originally expected and I had a good amount of cross comb and brace comb containing honey, which I removed from the hive. Not to waste the latter I put a small piece of plywood on top of the brood frames and put these “wild” bits and pieces of cross / brace comb containing honey on top of the frames. I put on a second empty brood box to accommodate the recycling of the honey. My expectation was that the bees would go up above their brood frames and take all the honey from these bits and scraps of wild comb containing honey and take the honey back down into the brood frames below. I inspected the hive this evening and my bees were lazily climbing all over these bits and scraps of comb “up stairs” and they had not removed or relocated any of the honey! There is a glorious ivy flow booming at the moment and the apiary is humming loudly with bees during the day times.
My question - how will I get the bees to take the honey from the cross/brace comb? There is a good bit of honey in it and I want the bees to get the benefit of it.