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What's wrong or right about doing an a reverse artificial swarm?
i.e Take the queen,a couple of frames of brood and bees and put in a new box in new position. A swarm cell,remaining brood and bees stay on the original box and position.
Queen has been severely weakened, all the flying bees go back to the original site, she can't swarm
The old brood box has all the flying bees with remainder of the existing brood awaiting a new queen.
I'm sure your replies will be interesting and diverse.
Dave
i.e Take the queen,a couple of frames of brood and bees and put in a new box in new position. A swarm cell,remaining brood and bees stay on the original box and position.
Queen has been severely weakened, all the flying bees go back to the original site, she can't swarm
The old brood box has all the flying bees with remainder of the existing brood awaiting a new queen.
I'm sure your replies will be interesting and diverse.
Dave