Cheers- that’s good to hear!
Consider adding a 3 frame flow super down the track- mine has been working brilliantly- I have even made a few one frame flow boxes if you are interested PM me… they stack right onto standard Nucs.
After Jeff’s post I remembered my pre-emptive swarm plan for this hive- to take out frames of brood and add them to my long hive. I think these smaller hives can work well in conjunction with larger ones- as potential spare queens and brood frame donors.
getting back to topic- that photo is very interesting- you can clearly see the bees have entirely coated the inner cells walls with a fine layer of wax. I was wondering if they did that. I wonder how much interaction there even is between the honey and the plastic. Very little I imagine.
“I think these smaller hives can work well in conjunction with larger ones- as potential spare queens and brood frame donors” - That was exactly my thoughts!
Warmer weather is here in Perth and let the spring begin! 
Hi Jack, no I’m not cutting any patches of pollen out. I generally cut the whole frame out when it occurs. But they are not doing that right now. They are mainly expanding the brood to the point of filling whole frames with brood. Some colonies much faster than others.
I used to use a pollen trap on a hive at my house. I had the exact same theory as you. I thought that hive wouldn’t prepare to swarm, but it did. I can’t remember whether I caught it in time or not.
If you don’t want the pollen for any other reason, I would save my money & continue with swarm prevention.
One thing about those multi story nuc box hives is: If you decide to go with regular 8 or 10 frame hives down the track, you’ll have plenty of nuc boxes on hand.
Well done Jack, that’s fantastic:) They look good. Next time you get negative comments about your multiple nuc hive, remind them how some people have 3 single frames on top of each other in observation hives.
I accidentally killed the queen in mine while removing the outside frames to weaken it out. That colony is busy making a new queen in another box. I put a queen out of a slow producing hive in there as a replacement. That hive is also producing a new queen now. Maybe I should break those queen cells down & use queen cells from a higher performing hive. That might be my job for this afternoon.
