From what I read I understood that I could expect to find Queen cells in the BB on the top of the hive some time after I demarree. The Queen would be at the bottom of the hive under a queen excluder so the bees in the top box would naturally try to make a new Queen.
In my head it was beginning to make sense... Now where did I leave Ted Hooper's book.
Demaree is good, and can build your muscles up lol, bulding and unbuilding and rebuilding the whole stack at each examination.
Timed correctly, which is when the brood box is approaching full but before cells have started (even eggs in pups is enough) then the majority of demaree cases will NOT raise cells. However you MUST check for this just to be sure. If they DO draw good cells you can exploit this by inserting a flight board under the old nest which is now at the top of the hive, leaving ONE good cell, and allow her to fly and mate from the top. You then can use it for a split OR for reuniting later and thus requeening.
Demaree is usually good for about 3 weeks of swarm control before you have to repeat the job. If its a dearth time it does not occur so quickly.
For it to be most effective you need DRAWN comb in the new brood box.
If you don't have that then 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.
Its a system that works best with some experience under your belt...
If I was writing a book it would almost need a chapter to itself to deal with all the wrinkles to the system.
ps....when I use the term 'pups' or 'pup cells' I get asked what I mean by it. Its the term for what many have come to call play cells, but they are not a play cell at all. They are the cups prepared for the queen to lay in before swarming kicks off. Watch them closely over the season and you can learn a lot, as the shape changes slightly according to the bees stage of development towards swarming. Especially the mouth of the cell. Its generally a little big and wide and narrowed down to worker cell size about the time of laying, then re=enlarged once they want to feed a larva. The further on in the cycle it is the less chance you have of Demaree being effective.
ps2.... you should always have a box...ie a super.....between the excluder and the by now upper deep.
