Re: Commercial Nuc and National Hive

Charlie Kroeger wrote:
>> Never seen a national
> 
> That's because you're an American and we don't use them.
> 
>> A fellow bee-keeper in the area [somewhere in Britain] has offered to
supply me with a nuc on commercial frames. 
> 
> Commercial frames are closer in size to American Langstroth frames
anyway
> they are, as you've intimated, larger than national frames. You can't
cut
> down the frames to fit the national hive box you can however add a strip
of
> wood to the bottom of the national to acquire the necessary height.
> 

You are right Charlie, I am indeed in the UK.  I think I need to say
more what I am trying to achieve.  I want to migrate the bees from the
longer frames to the smaller national ones.  I was thinking of putting
the shorter frames in the larger brood box next to the larger frames and
when the brood has extended onto the smaller frames move it all onto
smaller frames.

This operation I am thinking will mean me scrapping a couple of frames
of brood.

Is there a way of encouraging the queen to stop laying on a frame
without the attendant bees deserting the lavae and eggs there?

Thanks
Steve P