swarm prevention thought

[maddydog]

I liked the idea of sticking a small piece of metal foil to the thorax of the queen and finding her with a magnet but the best bit was a magnetic strip across the top of the hive entrance and if they tried to swarm you knew where she was.

Just perusing big T's website and saw a magnetic queen marking kit and it reminded me of this thread! Good in theory I guess but you still have to find the queen and glue a metal disk to her. 65 quid and another 25 for each set of additional discs (excludes glue of course )