My giant hive that I’ve made several splits from is queenless. No brood, no eggs, but it has tons of bees and nearly two supers full of honey. They were left with two queen cells but should have had a queen going by now.
I want to recombine a split I made from it. Normally I would just put some. Newspaper on and put the new box on it. But this hive has the two honey supers on it. How can I combine them while keeping the supers on? Should I use a bee escape to remove most bees from the supers before adding them above the new brood box, which will go above the two original brood boxes?? Put newspaper below and above the new brood box and put it in same position as mentioned above? Supers have a Vivaldi box on top with small open.