Clipping the queen's wings will not prevent swarming.  It keeps the
queen from leaving the area but she will still be driven out of the
hive.  If you are there daily or more often, you can then take her
and possibly the swarm to a new hive.  You are still faced with after
swarms.   No Good!!!
 
using a queen excluder prevents the queen from leaving so the swarm
comes back.  Virgin queens are ready to leave their cells.  You may
wind up losing the old queen.  The virgin queens can't get out to mate
so you wind up with a drone layer.  No Good!!!
 
To prevent swarming
        a) keep a young ( less than two years ) in the hive
        b) give them plenty of space
 
Since you have limited time to do it and may not have much planning
time, you may have to limit your actions to (b).  If you have a quick
source for new queens, do (a) as well.  You may have to balance the
brood or split colonies if you have some real strong already.
 
Oh! (a) refers to queen, I lost a word with slow fingers!
 
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