>Mike how many queens are in the 4 over 4 over 8 frame nucs?
  1 in each.<

I assume that there is a queen excluder on top of the 8 frames and between 
the nuc boxes.  Do you ever have queens get left behind?  What keeps the 
bees in their own boxes?  Your methods intrique me, since I am over 
wintering nucs too.  Everytime i mention this to my mentors I get told it 
will not work.
Thanks
Dave
South East Idaho 

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