I had planned to take honey from Olea's hive. I found only a couple of bars with capped honey and on them, only about half the cells were capped. I decided to leave it all for the bees. I did take out three bars that had empty comb on them.
The instructions for Apivar say one strip/frame full of bees. Pretty straightforward. However, I don't know how to convert a top bar comb full of bees to a Langstroth frame FOB. I guess that each top bar is about 1/2 of a Langstroth. I had 10-11 bars FOB, so I put in only one strip. On retrospect I may have underestimated the size of the comb and probably should have put in 2 strips.
Each brood box of hives #2 & 3 got two strips. I put one strip into the nuc. In 6-8 weeks I will remove the strips.
Today I scraped the comb with capped honey off of the two frames from the super and Maidi strained in obtaining 6 cups of honey.
I put the frames outside for the bees to clean up.
This photo was taken about 3 hours after the bees got to it. The white foundation had been coated with honey. Only a few bees were still on either frame.