Colony set-up and management/maintenance
Adding honey supers
Good Beekeeping Practices
Duration: 7 min
Video
Adding honey supers is useful for both swarming prevention and honey production. The honey supers increase the hive volume and give more space for the honey storage.
The lack of space is one of the causes of the swarming and the production loss. On one hand, the space becomes insufficient for the brood and on the other hand if the space is limited for honey storage the honeybees stop collecting nectar. Anyway, the honey supers have to be added at the right time of the colony’s development.