Well so much for a hard winter here in upper northern California, winters here are certainly not what they used to be. Our spring started earlier than I ever remember, complete with a double abundance of pollen. We had an usually warm two weeks in early March and I was able to get into the hives and get them set up for spring. Because nectar was coming in early I added the first supers with queen excluders.
The bees are slowly storing the nectar in the honey frames, but also, every frame is about 1/4 full of pollen as well. the big flow has not started yet. Can't have pollen in the honey frames.
1. Two things I'm thinking about. I could pull the supers for awhile until the big flow?
2. Or, I could leave them on and let the bees fill them with pollen, therefore they won't be plugging up the bottom brood boxes?