Uniting question

[monarda]

What would be my best plan for uniting a caught caste swarm with a good laying queen up and running and now housed in standard brood box with a hive close by . This hive is queenless as result of artificial swarm but has 3 capped q.c's (I pinched out a further dozen yesterday) and consists of brood and a half with 3 supers on top(1 in process of being capped,1 full of nectar and 1 of drawn comb but mostly empty). I wish to keep the swarm queen as head of the new colony created. Ideas anyone?
Cheers-Dave

 

[Swarm]

Break the cells down and unite via paper? Put an excluder and paper on top of the queenless hive and put your swarm on top.

 

[monarda]

Break the cells down and unite via paper? Put an excluder and paper on top of the queenless hive and put your swarm on top.

Hi Steve, so I dont have to think about removing supers first?

 

[Swarm]

Minimum fuss, the excluder keeps your queen in the top box. You can rearrange the supers once they've united.

 

[monarda]

Minimum fuss, the excluder keeps your queen in the top box. You can rearrange the supers once they've united.

Thanks Steve

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

so I dont have to think about removing supers first?

No,just unite on top of the supers (newspaper, QX, top box)

If it had a laying queen, it was no cast.

 

[monarda]

No,just unite on top of the supers (newspaper, QX, top box)

If it had a laying queen, it was no cast.

Right thats the plan-it was a caste with virgin queen when I originally caught it but then mated ( saw it return with tag) and now well and truly established.Sorry JBM I didnt make that clear in my om. Just had another thought , if in taking down q.c's I miss one what would happen when united and do I need to worry about ventilation in the top brood box Im adding?
Dave

 

[Swarm]

If you miss one you could lose your laying queen to either a swarm or the virgin queen.
In your quest to break them down, be thorough and shake the bees off every frame.

 

[monarda]

If you miss one you could lose your laying queen to either a swarm or the virgin queen.
In your quest to break them down, be thorough and shake the bees off every frame.

Will do.