There doesn't appear to be much space in the brood chamber
...then you'll be looking to provide some, using stickies.
and I believe there still might be some sort of flow going on.
News just yesterday is temps are dropping as that Front moves east but
there'll be fly hours/days innit and after it.
I'll have a good look at the center few frames to see if there's much space for them to lay new brood.
I don't think I will harvest, since they're just 1 or 2 deep and I'm going into Winter.
Remember bees want their food where the queen is, like around the cluster.
So where frames of stores are above any broodchamber config there isn't to
be any QX or clearance board fitted.
I'm just thinking about it now... I've got some hives at a different site that are starving. I'm going to move
them to where these hives are doing well and full of honey.
Have a think about why you put those colonys there in the first place?
2018/19 may not have (overall) been kind but next year???
What if I took out some frames of the hives that are full of honey, and give them to the bees that are
starving? That way the hives that are full will have some empty space to expand into, and the bees
that are almost empty on honey, can get some juicy thick honeyframes to help them out?
With appropriate frame shuffles that could work... be very sure no colonys have
any AFB/EFB presence though. And remember we are talking empty drawn comb
as "space" here, not super space or expectations to build new combs, that won't
happen (much) at these temps, even in a flow.
Adelaide is outside the window now for moth and beetle flareups so storing combs
in a sealed tub left in the lawnlocker could be an option over winter or this could be
an opportunity to renew old combs now reaching nonviable brood rearing.
Whatever you do do, diarise the manipulations and later the outcomes.
Biosecurity demands this anyway buuut the significant benefit to you is
in future times and conditions in having a reference of your own making.
Cheers...
Bill