How to stop cast swarming

[Mark Nolan]

Hi everyone,

I know there are lots of tips and advice on how to prevent cast swarms (leaving one open queen cell, etc). However, due a variety of reasons I unfortunately split a very string colony (moved old queen to nuc) and didn't manage to remove many of the queen cells. That delayed the prime swarm for a short time and now they are also sending out cast swarms due to my mishandling of the situation!

So, my question is, what can I do to salvage the situation? I can check again for any queen cells and destroy them, but will there still be virgin queens running around in the hive - they're very hard to spot. I've committed the sin, what's my penance?!!

 

[Ian123]

Go in and check how many sealed cells are left. Pick a decent 1 and destroy all others even if there’s a virgin still on the rampage you only stand a chance of 1 lost cast.