Is it possible to convince a hive to swarm into a new vacant behive structure that you stock with wax racks? THen you have essentially split your hive into two for twice the honey production.
it is. in fact people put little capture hives around existing hives to catch the swarm.
i was in africa and there, the guys who live in the woods build empty hives out of bark and hang them in the trees, and bees just move in.