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I am fostering colonies that are currently on 14*12s. For various reasons these will need to be transfered to standard BN BB. Apart from shook swarm, which is a little risky as nectar flow not particularly good at moment, what else could I do?

I have 11 frames in a national BB that had an artificial swarm in four weeks ago. ~ 8 frames are full of brood, ~2 food frames ~1 frame being drawn out ~three supers, two full. Although no signs of queen cell building on last inspection should I add a second BB at this point in season as...

I need to expand space for brood but worry about weight of using two national brood boxes. As I have no particular wish to replace my relatively new national hives has any one any experience of using three supers for brood? Pros and cons?

Inspecting today I had a normal looking colony over five frames, sealed brood, lavae and eggs but on a parallel frame, and laid over the seven days since I last inspected, to one side of the spherical colony was a whole frame of drone cells. What's going on?