Hi all, first topic on this forum. I have a 10 frame Langstroth hive and I want to transfer the bees and frames into my 8 frame Flow Hive brood box. I am hoping that the outer 2 frames are not being used by the bees. If they are already using them I hope they just have honey and pollen in them, if so can I just freeze the frames and feed back to them in winter. Also should I keep the frames in the same positions? Cheers in advance, Jeffro
Hello and welcome to the Flow forum! 
Yes you should keep the frames in the same positions if at all possible, but it would be fine to remove and freeze any pollen/honey frames. Good plan
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Hi Jeffro, I would not focus so much on the honey frames as much as I would remove the worst looking brood frames. The ones with the least amount of worker comb on them. I would also keep the frames in the same order & evenly space the frames. Avoid squashing bees between frames as a matter of importance, on account that beetles will lay eggs in the squashed bees that can’t be readily removed by the house bees. You might like to squash & strain any frames full of honey for yourself. Otherwise I agree with @Dawn_SD , there’s no problems with freezing it.
Keep your smoker going & use it to drive bees away from where you want to place frames in the new box, etc
cheers.
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