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[maddydog]

Demaree is good but the trick comes with the timing. Too early and you can hamstring your colony. Too late and it won't work because they're in swarming mode.
IMHO there's no perfect system else there wouldn't be 500 methods and swarms in chimneys! Expect to lose some occasionally and have a plan to retrieve them (and the equipment to hand) if your plan A,B, and C didn't work

 

[BeeJuice]

Maddydog, you're my plan b and c!

 

[maddydog]

Fair enough but I'm away for a week in may so you can practice swarm control on mine!

 

[BeeJuice]

... Use your second deep as your first super initially, and let the bees draw a lot of the frames out, then use THAT box to Demaree into, adding normal supers above an excluder at that time. They will rapidly move the honey up into the supers as the queen wants to lay.[/QUOT

Would you put he new BB above or below the existing BB?

 

[Swarm]

Use your second deep as your first super initially
Above.

 

[Chriszog]

Have a read on Dave Cushmans site re Demaree, very interesting.