Addison,

     I have also found it very hard to get the bees to draw out a straight box of foundation IF they don't have another place to store honey that is directly above that box.  From what it sounds like you have a brood box and two supers, one filled and one of undrawn foundation.  I had the same thing happen to me last year of three of my hives.  The bees were more content to fill the brood box and super out with honey than to work out the foundation.  However, as soon as I placed an empty super of drawn comb directly above it, they immediately began to build comb.  What seems to work well for me is to remove the queen excluder, and place the undrawn foundation directly above it, then on the very top put the drawn empty comb.  In the mean time the unwaxed frames will act like an excluder.  After they start to really work on it, drop your excluder back in.  Everyone has different methods and tricks that work for them, this one works for me.  Hope it works for you as well.

Josh Jaros



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