No honey in my hive!

[Dawn_SD]

Hi there, and welcome to the Flow forum. I think we have a naming problem here, and unless you can post photos, I would suggest that you read a post I wrote within the last 48 hours to avoid confusion about “supers” versus “brood”.

One super or two?

British beekeepers have an interesting little aide-memoire: A swarm in May is worth a stack of hay. A swarm in June is worth a silver spoon. A swarm in July isn’t worth a fly. In other words, swarms in July or later will likely not survive the winter, and won’t make you a good honey harvest that season. As a split is a kind of artificial swarm, the same wisdom could be applied to doing splits. Just my way of looking at it, but many British beekeepers think that way too.

I am not wanting to be pedantic, I am just trying to understand your setup and your problem, as they vary a lot between beekeepers.

In Minnesota however, your major annual nectar flow is definitely over, and you will need to take off the Flow super with the plastic frames ASAP to avoid gumming up the works with propolis, which bees will start to do very soon!