During the winter I purchased equipment to deal with swarms and decided to opt for the nucleus method, where you put the old queen in a nucleus with some of the flying bees and let the rest of the hive sort itself out without the queen (i.e. rear a new queen). So, with the Moon wanting to swarm, I quickly nailed the nuc box together, hopefully not disturbing the neighbours too much with my late night hammering.
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| Watch out for those fingers... |
So, I'm ready to go now.
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| The complete nuc box |
The only thing I am slightly apprehensive about is that the nucleus method depends on me finding the queen. When I decided to opt for that method of swarm control, I didn't know I had an unmarked, flighty queen in the Moon. Hopefully I'll be able to find her; if not, I have a serious problem...
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