Removing Langstroth frame and replace with ideal frames

@Dan2 really? I hadn’t read about that (supercedure impulse) from cycling frames.

What you’ve just described is part of my swarm management strategy each spring and how I help build numbers in the hive. I cycle one frame of brood above the the QX (inner position) and leave an empty (w/ foundation) in it’s place below the QX (I shuffle frames to get the empty in an inner position, not on the edge). I take one frame out from above the QX for crush & strain (tedious…crush & strain) to create the space. My wife gets the wax, we get the honey, and I get a frame to clean and re-use.

Depending on how things seem to be going I might repeat this one more time.

(Note that I have a single 8-frame deep brood box, a QX, and then a flow-hybrid; during heavy nectar flow I also put another deep with 6 flow frames and sometimes a half-deep on top of the hybrid)

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