Since the Ethel hive does not seem to be viable I decided to get the honey.
Since there are still a bunch of bees in her, I went out with a bee escape. This is one of those double triangle ones that create a one way maze. I took out the top super that was empty and lifted the super with the honey. When I took off the queen excluder there were a bunch of bees clumped around a queen cell right at the top of the frames. I put the bee escape on and put the honey super on top of that.
I don’t have high hopes for the hive living even if the queen survives. I will go out in an hour or so to see how the bee escape worked (I am worried that it is on upside down).
