If you come out of winter with a healthy hive and want it to develop into a strong honey-producing hive in the coming year rather than split it, is there a way do that and avoid swarming?
tjc
I don't have experiance and so take it with a grain of salt anything I tell you.
Double screen boards are interesting ways of maby getting what you want.
http://www.kentbee.com/stw/bm~doc/demaree-method-of-swarm-control.pdf
http://www.killowen.com/swarmcontrol1.html
I think there is a honey making section on this one
http://www.mdasplitter.com/docs/NCarolina-2.pdf
Most relie on making a split and then bleeding bees back from the split to the main hive and then recombining after the swarm threat is over.
I did not read the first link but spell so bad that posting the link let me off the hook from having to spell the method.
There are lots of other ideals hand helpful things (like clipping the queen) killing the queen during flow and many other ideals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETgWMMZr4So
recombine later.
Good luck
gww
>If you come out of winter with a healthy hive and want it to develop into a strong honey-producing hive in the coming year rather than split it, is there a way do that and avoid swarming?
http://bushfarms.com/beesswarmcontrol.htm
Michael, GWW, many thanks!
Ted
Quote from: tjc1 on February 01, 2017, 09:29:47 PM
If you come out of winter with a healthy hive and want it to develop into a strong honey-producing hive in the coming year rather than split it, is there a way do that and avoid swarming?
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This is from a Randy Oliver article. I think it's my "plan A" this year.
Requeen before they are thinking about swarming