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
Cheers-Dave
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