I have a colony in my bee shed that has become difficult to inspect due to its size. It’s double brood and two supers and the top super is hooching with bees. I can’t give them more space as there is no more headroom. Can I combine the top super, over newspaper, with a hive that’s depleted from recent swarming and needs a boost before the start of the heather. The smaller hive should have a new Queen but not sure she has mated yet. Weather not been much above 14 degrees here in Kingussie for the past 7 days but due to warm up this week.
Ive combined brood boxes before but not a super over a brood box and super.


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