Uniting apidea to nuc

[beejazz]

I hope this is going to work! I didn't like the idea of wasting the bees/brood if i had removed the queen, so I have united the Q+apidea with newspaper to a 3-frame nuc, (Paynes Poly nuc). I used 3 poly ekes to house the apidea (double box so 10 frames), placed some strong cardboard on the topbars of the nuc with a cut-out the same dimensions as the apidea, newspaper over the cut out hole, and then the apidea placed on top of that with the floor removed. I think it may be working, since there is quite a bit of pollen going in now, and the newspaper is chewed through and removed. I'm thinking I should look for the queen and get her down into the nuc if she is not already, and then put a piece of Q exc under the apidea.
Regarding the amount of bees/brood in an apidea, with 2 boxes of brood, is that equivalent to a frame of bees? I'm hoping I have made up a nuc that will be strong enough to over-winter.