Beekeeping: How To Remove Supers Without Crowding Your Bees

Beekeeping always presents challenges like if you remove you honey supers how do you prevent your bees from being crowded in less boxes?

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[tonyc]

Here in Texas we were taught to put the supers back on the hive, in the evening, for at least one night, after harvesting the honey, so that the bees can clean out the remainder of the honey from the comb.

[Airplanefan]

I just replace frame for frame and put the capped honey in a nuc box I use as a transport box but I’m new and don’t have a ton of hives.

[billchriswell]

Often times I'll use the last excess supers to balance out winter feed for weaker colonies

[whispershuman]

I bought a deep freezer this year to store frames in over the winter. I'm in it to win it!!

[Bowhuntersgoxzx]

Good stuff, also all the drones that get kicked out of the hive in the fall and the last summer bees that die after their 45 days will help reduce the hives size significantly.

[mlmhopeify]

Thank you. I hope my bees can over winter. Now I'm thinking about the 40 Plus days 🤔 of bee life.

[aaronparis]

You winter with 2 deeps and a super and a candy board your burning threw a hell of alote of food and I’m pretty sure I’m way colder then you

[Jdban]

Why would you skip freezing? All it takes is a couple eggs and you've got waxmoths in there

[randydueck]

Here in Texas, I always put the super back on for cleanup, and but also in case the bees continue to bring in nectar, which was the case this year. My flow inexplicably went until the first week of August after a very rainy spring with constant nectar washouts. I also like to leave a super on through dearth so I dont have to store it before the fall flow is over.

[bbogster]

Thank you. I absolutely appreciate your info. Awesome stuff

[melaniejenkins]

Really useful, questions i needed answers to, thank you

[eranorion]

When I harvest multiple supers off a hive at once, the Bee's seem to do just fine with the less space of my remaining single deep. Those that need more space, beard on the front. I return the wet supers asap for repair and the next flow. The last harvest in October I empty the supers and put them out to bee cleaned up by the Bee's and when dry I stack them in the barn. I have never had an insect issue, as theres nothing left for them. If I see small hive beetle larvae upon harvesting, I pick them out one by one or freeze that particular frame, then spin it once thawed. I overwinter in single deeps, and they emerge from winter bursting, and havent lost a hive in years.

[adamkerschenheiter]

Aug 20 today and I extracted a week ago. The number were already decreasing significantly. Running 50+ hives in Michigan, I removed all honey supers from all but 2 hives. Those hives had brood in the honey supers. Now, a week later the bearding has slowed for the most part.

[offshoot]

Yes but if you crowd them too fast they will abscond

[riobarudo]

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[Jmadd]

Hi David, I have 5 hives. 2 I purchased and 3 are swarms I've caught. One of the swarms will not go into the bottom box. No other hives do this so it seems odd. I don't see any bugs or anything weird. So you think there's a reason for this behavior? Thank you for all your videos.

[bachmanmwb]

Practical, timely and fun - as always. Thank you David for this video, your valuable experience//information is not taken lightly!

[moorish-mellow]

as someone looking into beekeeping next spring this channel has been a godsend! such a fascinating hobby. I'm hoping to attend an event where i can shadow a beekeeper to learn more

[wpankey]

Thanks again David. I really appreciate the knowledge your share. You’ve taught me so much.

[Pearcebees]

Sorry we didn't get to see you last night we was at our local bee meeting we had our bees for a few weeks now we love our bees thanks a ton