Question about Honey in the upper deeps.

[Yankee11]

I have some big hives that either swarmed, very small swarms or are requeening, So there is a brood interruption. They are filling the upper deep frames with solid Honey.

Will they move the Honey up into the super as the new queen picks up laying or do I need to extract the Honey and place the empty comb back into the hives. Great heavy flow going on right now,

[riverbee]

yankee, they won't move honey up from a deep into a super.  they are filling the deep because you had no super on.........
so you will have to pull frames of honey out of the deep, replace with empty comb, and put supers on.....

[LazyBkpr]

yankee, they won't move honey up from a deep into a super.  they are filling the deep because you had no super on.........
so you will have to pull frames of honey out of the deep, replace with empty comb, and put supers on.....

 
   OH! The joy of having all my boxes the same size!!!!!!

  hehe sorry, couldn't help but take the opportunity to rub that in.   

[Jen]

And Scott    I can thank you for encouraging my hives the same way. The only difference, is the bottom hive is a deep, the rest are mediums. I'm loving it!

Fist BumP 

[Yankee11]

I have supers on my hives. The supers have very little honey on these couple of hives in question. These supers are even pulled comb.

I do have a excluder on them. I thought the excluder was just a factor with supers of foundation.

I will plan on pulling the frames of honey then when they get it capped. The new queen will be Honey bound when she starts laying heavy.

[riverbee]

okay yankee, my guess is that a flow started and they were bringing it in before you realized it and before supers went on, so they started packing it away in the 2nd deep.  so the bees are a bit organized, like with supers, they don't work them all, they work the box their in, before moving to the next one.......if this makes sense? if you have drawn comb in the supers above, the excluder is not the issue.

what's in the bottom deeps?

[riverbee]

yankee, what you could do, do you have an extra deep with drawn comb?  if you do, place that on on top your first deep, bring a couple brood frames up in it, then take the deep they are packing away honey in and treat it as super.  when they cap it off, remove it and then put your mediums on......
you open it, give the queen frames to lay in and a nice honey harvest....

[Yankee11]

That's a great idea Riverbee, treating a deep as a super. In fact , I have several hives this way.So I could take an empty deep down to the bee yard and pull most of the full frame of nectar/honey and replace them with comb of foundation (they are pulling foundation right now like crazy) then put all those honey/nectar frames on top of a ecluder and let them finish capping. Man, thanks a lot.

And yes, that may be what happened with the flow staring without me realizing it. The weather has been crazy here this spring. Caught a swarm when
it was 43 degrees and got down to 34 that night.

Oh, should I leave 1 frame on the end in each hive or just pull it all and let then replace how they want to since a flow is on. I know to leave the pollen frames on the end.

[riverbee]

"should I leave 1 frame on the end in each hive or just pull it all and let then replace how they want to since a flow is on. I know to leave the pollen frames on the end."

yankee, if you are using foundation for the 2nd deep and they are drawing like crazy right now, i would let them draw the foundation out, and put all your deep honey frames above the excluder. if you have any honey pollen mix frames in these then put these frames in the 2nd deep and frames of foundation to replace them in your 3rd 'honey deep'............