>I move colonies from 5-frame nuc boxes to singles arbitrarily--sometimes
>when there are only three frames of bees, sometimes when the nuc box is
>packed with bees.  I haven't noticed that they subsequently build up
>differently, but then again I have not really paid attention.  I will do so
>this spring!

OK.  Let's then ask this:

Would you take the Spam can full of bees which would fully populate a baby nuc and expect them to do as well in a standard super?

Maybe you would/could.  Around here, they would be dead within weeks, 10 months of the year, while in baby nucs, they could conceivably swarm.

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