This is my first spring of bee keeping as i didnt get my colony of bees until late may of last year. After my first inspection of the year about 4 weeks ago i found my brood box bursting with bees with sealed brood on at least 6 frames,so i decided to change over to a 14x12 brood box to give them a bit more space and hopefully stop them from swarming.The new brood box has been on about a week now and as it was quite a nice day today i had a quick look to see how they were doing in drawing out the combs.
what i found was that they had partly drawn out about 5or6 frames but all the cells were being used to store honey,basically they were using it like a super so no space for the queen to lay if she wanted.
the set up at the moment is old standard BB then new 14x12 BB crown board feeding eek with ambrosia syrup(thought would help with wax making but they havn,t touched it)then the roof.
should i have put the new BB right on the bottom?
what i found was that they had partly drawn out about 5or6 frames but all the cells were being used to store honey,basically they were using it like a super so no space for the queen to lay if she wanted.
the set up at the moment is old standard BB then new 14x12 BB crown board feeding eek with ambrosia syrup(thought would help with wax making but they havn,t touched it)then the roof.
should i have put the new BB right on the bottom?