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Although QCs of any sort can result in swarming, my instinct says that at this time in the season the bees' intention is to replace the queen and no more. Peak risk of swarming is long gone.drawn under the emergency response
However, reducing to one does give certainty. Another option for Paul (next time): rather than cull the 19, he could have made up couple of nucs with the best.