Hi John You have a nice bee removal lined up. Some comments : - when removing combs and tying them into frames it usually results in a mess no matter how tightly one fastens the combs. My advice is to simply take all the brood and put it in an insulated box, then put it in an empty brood box above an excluder in a strong hive. Those bees will hatch the young bees and use them. Take a few frames of brood from these bees for your moved hive. (The moved hive will be in chaos for a few hours, in which time at your time of year most of the brood will be chilled, and the bees will just waste time and energy raising useless bees. What you want is/are the pollen reserves. I have found for some reason bees will fix pollen combs neatly into a frame, but always seem to bend brood combs. I think this is because brood combs are maintained at a higher temperature. Then one ends up with a wavy comb, or at worst, two frames stuck together. This is not good. For living space for the bees - give them foundation and lots of honey or sugar water. They will draw fresh combs very fast and will be far healthier. A swarm hived straight onto foundation with pollen reserves seems to draw faster than one without - don't ask me why, but it is a definitely noticeably thing. As regards the moving of the bees - the trick here is to find the queen. Take her away and hold her for about ten minutes. Bring her back and the bees become very excited and make a sort of hissing huming sound and all move towards her. They will follow your hand with the queen in it to the new box, walking along the ground. Usually they will reorientate the next morning as this 'scenting' to show the queen seems to have the effect of making them believe they have swarmed. (Note - this getting the bees to move only works once all brood is removed - before this point they will rather sit and stay with the brood) Hope this helps Keep well Garth Garth Cambray Camdini Apiaries Grahamstown Apis mellifera capensis Eastern Cape Prov. South Africa Time = Honey Standard Disclaimer applies to this post.