make them stay

[jayj200]

the last 3 swarms cut outs stayed a couple weeks then left.
how does one make them stay?

[chux]

Were they swarms, or were they cutouts? Or both? Did they all get put in the same box and decide to leave? The same comb? My mentor had a box that 3 different colonies absconded from within a week of hiving them. He burned that box and combs. There was something wrong with the equipment.

If it was in different equipment.... Were they weak, and robbed out?

[Blacksheep]

I put a small peice of queen excluder over the entrance and leave it  for a while.Workers can get out but queen is locked in so they stay put when they get some brood they will stay in most cases.