"Unwanted" swarm

[Sutty]

On of my hives swarmed today - a few days ago I inspected it and found a recently emerged QC (?EQC but on bottom of frame) and a bunch of sealed EQCs. Not knowing if a virgin was in the hive (&no sign of the old Q) I pulled halve a dozen virgins from ripe QCs and destroyed the rest (I thought).
Having caught the smallish swarm (presume cast) it's in a nuc box between 2 other hives. I was about to go away for a few days as they swarmed so that's all I've done except add some frames of foundation to avoid wild comb.
The thing is I have already got too many colonies & no more boxes.
When back in a few days I'm wondering about shaking them out and removing the nuc box - having orientated on a spot very close to 2 other hives (less than 2 feet) they should enter those hives but the VQ will be denied entrance (hopefully).
Any obvious problem with this?

 

[blackcloud]

They may not want to leave the queen and just sit with her .
If find her and squish.

 

[Sutty]

They may not want to leave the queen and just sit with her .
If find her and squish.

Thanks. Good thought!

 

[steve1958]

Once your new Queen has mated you will have a perfect 'Swarm' colony to donate to a new beekeeper.

 

[Sutty]

Once your new Queen has mated you will have a perfect 'Swarm' colony to donate to a new beekeeper.

I don't know any! The nearest association is about 40 minutes drive away.

 

[Ian123]

Combine with another recent swarm?

 

[enrico]

Or just keep it ticking over to give you a new queen in emergencies. It could stay in the nuc box forever if you keep renewing the brood and food. Brood in colonies that need help and harvest the food.

 

[Sutty]

Combine with another recent swarm?

Lovely idea but been there already! 3 swarms of mine and 1 other combined about 3-4 weeks ago and already on double brood & 3 supers!
Instant strong colony!
It'll probably try to swarm soon!

 

[Etton]

Don’t want to take over posting, but it’s a related topic. I have a hive from hell, so aggressive/attacking! I have moved the brood box to isolate the queen & brood letting all the flying bees return to original location. Like Sutty I’m thinking of shaking all the bees out of the brood box, saving me looking for her!

 

[redtrout]

I had a super aggressive colony which fortunately was next to a nuc from last year. I moved the aggressive colony 10ft away and shook out all of the bees onto the ground. With an empty bb and the aggressive bee frames in the original position I paper united the nuc to this.
Seems to be a success as it is now an easy colony to manage. Only 10 stings to show for it.