Rich,
     You might try something that I've always wanted to do, that is to
have a 2 queen hive.  To do that, put a queen excluder over the brrod
chambers in the present hive, place your supers over that, then place
another queen excluder over the supers with another brood chamber (or
two) above the second queen excluder.  You then place the bees from under
the bottom board in the topmost section of brood chambers.  Drill a hole
below one of the handles to provice a second means of access for the top
colony.  You might also place a sheet of newspaper between the top
section of hive bodies and the second queen excluder to provide an
aclimation time for the two colonies.  If you do this, please let me know
how things turned out.   MIKE STOOPS  Sugar Land, TEXAS  [log in to unmask]
 
On Mon, 19 Jun 1995, Rich Petke wrote:
 
> I need some advice -
>
> I have what appears to be a small after swarm attached to the underside
> of the bottom board of one of my hives.  (My bottom boards rest on top
> of cement blocks.)  The swarm is not from the hive that it's attached to
> as that hive has not swarmed.  It might be from another hive in the yard
> but I doubt it as all of the other hives seem to be very strong.  So far
> the swarm under the hive seems to be co-existing with the hive.
>
> My question relates to how I should handle the situation.  Given that I
> have a colony above the swarm that would have to be moved (or otherwise
> contended with) in order to access the swarm.  Any suggestions?
>