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I have a hive that is producing charged queen cells, half a dozen or so not capped, the hive has plenty of drones. The hive also has eggs and BIAS. I tried to find the Queen on a few occasions and just cannot find her, one reason may be that there are just so many bees. I did find and mark a Queen from another hive okay today, so I can usually find them.
I am going to look again tomorrow, but as a plan ‘B’ I need a method of swarm control without finding the Queen, I have found a few, the most straightforward I have found is is the National Bee Unit one;
http://www.mubk.org.uk/images/defra...warm_Control_When_You_Cant_Find_the_Queen.pdf
Using this it would look likely that the Queen ends up with the majority of the brood in a new location, leaving the flying bees with one frame of brood and the supers.
Has anyone tried this one and has it worked, or can anybody suggest a straightforward method, I am not looking for anything special, just a simple stop them swarming method.
Thanks
I am going to look again tomorrow, but as a plan ‘B’ I need a method of swarm control without finding the Queen, I have found a few, the most straightforward I have found is is the National Bee Unit one;
http://www.mubk.org.uk/images/defra...warm_Control_When_You_Cant_Find_the_Queen.pdf
Using this it would look likely that the Queen ends up with the majority of the brood in a new location, leaving the flying bees with one frame of brood and the supers.
Has anyone tried this one and has it worked, or can anybody suggest a straightforward method, I am not looking for anything special, just a simple stop them swarming method.
Thanks