This works if your super is a deep one.  If it's a medium or shallow, you
do not want to put the brood frames from it into a deep box.  A friend of
mine recently left a shallow frame in a deep box inadvertently and within 3
days it was locked up with brace comb in the empty space below the frame.
Michael
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> From: j h & e mcadam <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Queen in honey super
> Date: Wednesday, August 27, 1997 6:19 AM
>
> >What is the best method for getting the queen back down
> >into the brood chambers?
> >
> A bit of frame sorting is in order here.  Take out any full sealed frames
of
> honey from the brood box.  Select any frames from the super where the
queen
> is laying that have unsealed brood/eggs or queen and place these in the
> brood box.  Fill in the brood box with sealed brood or empty frames.  If
you
> are sure the queen is now in the brood box, use a queen excluder and any
> other frames of sealed brood, unsealed honey, pollen etc. can go in
supers
> above.  Otherwise leave the excluder off so the queen can find her own
way
> down to the brood chamber.
>
> The bees will quickly re-arrange supplies to suit themselves and the
queen
> will always lay wherever the brood is at the moment, that is, if she has
> been in an upper super but all the fresh brood is now down in the brood
box
> she will return there to continue laying.
>
> Betty McAdam
> HOG BAY APIARY
> Penneshaw, Kangaroo Island
> j.h. & e. mcadam<[log in to unmask]
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