The method I am pointing to is not "undersupering" Brian, that method is something else
and also as mentioned by another poster only applies to brood boxes - for those that
subscribe to doing so. I and no other commercial beek I know of does.
Using that same head (logic) ask yourself how bees can deposit honey in unbuilt cells
on new frames, the answer should tell you why the top box fills with a few new
frames amongst capped in the box under.
Cheers.
Bill
Hi Bill.
My under supering comment was the similarity to giving the bees new frames to work on closest to the brood as opposed to capping frames in the top super filled with nectar. My bees are doing what comes natural but I don't want to continually give them new frames in the first super when there's frames in the second super that should be capped first before they build comb & store nectar in the new ones.
I'm trying to encourage them to finish what they started before giving them any new projects.
It isn't so much "finish what they started" Brian as "bugger me, what do we do with
this lot".... a forced redistribution - by Courier Bees.
There is the link I read is missing in your logic, no way can wax builders build space to
accomadate courier bees at work in a solid flow.
Less new frames for a slower flow just keeps a balance, a judgement the beek makes
"on the fly". Simply throwing frames in or "a box under" willy nilly does not work as
maybe expected, and likewise for timing.
For your method you want wax builders doing the short march and courier bees doing
the long, bees won't accept that easy so it is down to you to set the balance that
forces them to see a lack of space, they then go up. No problem.
For the method Max and so many others follow as an efficiency the wax builders can
go do something else over eating honey to build energy as heat in wax building, whilst
the walk for courier bees is a faster turn around making for more returns to the beek
for the effort.
In short - building wax costs money.
Cheers.
Bill