I'm a second-year beekeeper who was really looking
forward to a honey-harvest this year.  I have two
hives, one started from a package last year, and one
from a package this year.  The hive from last year was
slow, but filled out a second deep rapidly this
spring.  With feeding, the hive I started this year
has also filled out a second deep (weather conditions
much better this spring than last).  I put shallow
supers with foundation on both of these hives weeks
ago, but there hasn't been ANY activity in them!  Not
even any drawn comb.  Both hives are heavy with stored
honey and pollen.  I've tried removing the queen
excluders, moving the shallows around in the stacked
hive - nothing seems to make a difference.
Does anyone have any advice on how to encourage the
bees to start drawing out the foundation?  I don't
want to feed syrup, because I don't want them to store
it in the super...
-Lee McMurtry


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