Over-wintered queen busting out of NUC - Adventures in Beekeeping

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Do you have good luck getting the bees to come up through the queen excluder with just foundation?

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I am forced to use just foundation for honey supers this year because the wax moths destroyed my drawn comb in my stored supers. In the past, I have not used queen excluders that much. So I am adding supers different ways to see what happens. So far this is what I think I am seeing.... Double brood box or more with a queen excluder - the bees are not working the foundation in the super yet. (They are backing filling the deeps with honey.) Double brood box without a queen excluder - I do not know yet what is happening. Single brood box with a queen excluder - the bees are drawing comb on the foundation. I am not expecting much of a honey crop this year because the bees are having to draw the comb. We shall see. Thanks for watching. Hope you have a great beekeeping year.

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