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A beekeeper explains how placing bruised honey frames below the brood nest with a queen excluder forces bees to move the honey upward, exploiting their instinct to keep honey above the brood.

A beekeeper explains how placing bruised honey frames below the brood nest with a queen excluder forces bees to move the honey upward, exploiting their instinct to keep honey above the brood.
So what we've done in that video there is take all of those bruised honey frames and placed it directly underneath the brood nest. We put the queen excluder in between so that queen can't move around, and the bees hate that configuration. They hate it when they have honey underneath their brood nest, and all they want to do in that situation is move it up through, place it up into the queen cell. Ah, that's