Moving nuc to full hive

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Good luck with it : please take pictures of your successes (you won't have any failures will you? ) :sunning:

No pictures BUT...

A mixed bag so far. One hive had drawn a beautiful frame of drones, which for the last three inspections has been the first frame of brood I've got to, making me panic that I have a drone layer!

I've only (so far) had one frame drawn out and stuck to the next to it. I've trimmed it back and they seem to be playing nicely now.

I've not yet had a frame collapse although I was getting fairly close to it yesterday. They hadn't drawn the full frame and I don't think it'd had a brood cycle through it, so hopefully things will improve as time goes on.

I shall endeavour to take a photo of a crumpled frame and angry bees when I do eventually get one that breaks!
 
I would only use foundationless starter strips in bait hives or when hiving a swarm. Get lovely drawn worker cells. Rest of the season they just draw out too much drone which I dont' want.
Will be experimenting late summer with some foundationless to see if I can get some worker cells at the same time as they are kicking out the drones.
 

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