Thanks everyone for your response.

Despite various interesting inputs, however, I find Chris’ last point most
pertinent here; hence, I must conclude that the Queen Excluder set under
the BC is still a viable option in forcing the secondary swarm to stay
put.  Waiting till dusk dose not sound good for me for fear of losing the
swarm and using a frame of brood, an excellent idea as mentioned in the
archive, is no good for me, either, for I would not sacrifice any brood
from my production hives: during a flow, I almost never open up the brood
chamber after I had done my swarm prevention earlier.

On a lighter note, since we are on swarm-mode, let me hear some
interesting anecdotes, regarding swarm or bait hive.  For instance, we
would all agree that the bait hive must be in place long before the bees
swarm.  I agree.  However, I wonder if there had been any freak incident
where a swarm just moved into the boxes that you happened to carry along
in your pickup in a neighborhood.  During swarm season, for instance, I,
always on the go, carry three units of deeps on my pickup for swarm-
retrieval, and I park at school regularly, which made me think about such
remote and unlikely possibility.

What do you say?

Yoon

Only light flow in Shawnee, OK.

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