Chris,
I am a little confused but what is new. So you have double deep brood
supers??!! Only one queen at present??!!
If you choose to have double deep brood chambers then your queen extruder should
go on top of the deeps and the shallow with honey on top of that, though why you
haven't taken it off and extracted it I don't know,but if you decide to leave it
with the bees then do that but take that deep that is on the top and move it
down and the shallow up. They are looking for somewhere to store honey. They eat
stored honey during the winter. I don't know where you live but hopefully you
want what they are finding in way of necter now. How many frames do you have in
the deep that has a few over drawn frames in it? Is it all drawn out comb or is
it new?? If you are worried that you are going to have a wax mess as in creative
wax making take those two frames out and extract them. I don't know if you run 9
or 10 frame boxes for honey, but if the frames are all new and not drawn out
then push them all together in the center of the box and they will pull them out
and fill them.
Hope that helped?
Chris Waters
----- Original Message -----
From: olopmac
To: KEEPINGBEES@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 12:12 PM
Subject: [KEEPINGBEES] Is this weird?


I'm very new and inexperienced--I've got two hives, and one of them
looks like every picture in every book of how a hive should look. The
other one is...different. It has changed queens a few times, been at
times very cross, at time very gentle, has been sometimes full of
capped brood and sometimes not so much, and in weird patterns...

OK, so weird hive has two deep bodies, then one super (full) of
over-wintered honey, then a queen excluder, and then a sorrowfully
empty super on top. The hive is full of bees. The current queen has
been in for about a month.

When I opened the upper of the two hive deeps, I found several frames
of new capped honey--both sides, every square centimeter. In fact,
the cells the honey is in, newly drawn, extend out so far that very
little comb can be drawn on adjacent frames--there just isn't room!
It just seems odd--they have an entire super of their own honey that
they're not touching.

There are no pictures of this sort of thing in books. Am I just
seeing a normal variation here, or is there something to diagnose...?

Many thanks for thoughts, ideas, reflections, etc.

--Chris




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