Originally Posted by
Adam
Once you have queencells in the hive you can make an artificial swarm. This will filter off the queen and the older flyers on the existing site. For the remainder stock you'll have some queencells, lots of brood and the young bees. Usually you would reduce this box down to 1 queencell. However you can take a nuc off (Queencell on it's frame of brood, another frame of brood, one of stores plus some shaken in bees) and that's your nuc. The remainder - with one queencell - should result in a mated queen along with a mated queen in the nuc. You'll then have 3 colonies and should all be viable (large enough) for winter.
This doesn't answer your Langstroth question though. Always better to keep compatible frames.....
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