- Joined
- May 3, 2010
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- Location
- W Sussex, UK
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- Some hives and a few nucs
My recent preferred method of swarm control is to leave single frame of brood and queen with other frames of foundation in fresh brood box with queen excluder and supers replaced above with original brood box then on very top above Snelgrove board leaving only open queen cells. I then change entrance every four days until queens due to hatch to bleed bees back in to lower part of hive. This has given me a good honey crop and newly raised queen without cast swarm which is then moved in old brood box to out apiary to make increase.
I now have enough hives and queens are two years old and I would like to replace with daughters. What is the best way to unite the newly raised queen and bees above Snelgrove board with colony below?
I now have enough hives and queens are two years old and I would like to replace with daughters. What is the best way to unite the newly raised queen and bees above Snelgrove board with colony below?