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How do commercials manage swarming?
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<blockquote data-quote="James" data-source="post: 9163" data-attributes="member: 212"><p>We never have a swarming issue.</p><p>Wecome out of the winter with two or three frames of brood, and keep knocking em back as we split and even and make up duds til mid november, when most hives are steaming along with five or six sealed frames ready to hatch. </p><p>We then move the bees to their summer locations and pile em up with three or four empty boxes.</p><p>The space above the queen excluder knocks the swarm urge out of them.</p><p>Any thing in the spring that is really strong is allowed to expand into a second brood box and then split right on the honey flow….. box with the queen taken to a new location while the queenless box full of sealed brood is given a queen cell and boxed up with three empty honey boxes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="James, post: 9163, member: 212"] We never have a swarming issue. Wecome out of the winter with two or three frames of brood, and keep knocking em back as we split and even and make up duds til mid november, when most hives are steaming along with five or six sealed frames ready to hatch. We then move the bees to their summer locations and pile em up with three or four empty boxes. The space above the queen excluder knocks the swarm urge out of them. Any thing in the spring that is really strong is allowed to expand into a second brood box and then split right on the honey flow….. box with the queen taken to a new location while the queenless box full of sealed brood is given a queen cell and boxed up with three empty honey boxes. [/QUOTE]
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