Brood in the Flow Frames - what to do?

[Rodderick]

The following response from Fred might be helpful.

Brood in flow frames really a problem?

Hi Faroe, I didn’t have to do anything to remove the brood from the flowframes. I simply allowed the brood to hatch and the queen migrated back down to the lower boxes on her own and the upper flow-frames were taken over once again with honey stores and it did function a little stiff on the first honey cycle, but has been fine since. I had left flowsupers on three colonies and none of them had queen excluders in place. Only one of the three ended up with brood in the frames, the other two wer…