Hi Robert, Keith & all

> > Perhaps, but if you keep doing this aren't you selecting
> > for swarminess?
>
> Not necessarily, You can induce swarming by a couple of ways.
> Also swarming is a natural occurrence of colonies that are
> doing extremely well

There is a difference between colonies that swarm when they have bountiful
resources, and those colonies that swarm too readily.

Many colonies in UK are still those that have derived from the age of skep
beekeeping, which automatically selects for rapid swarming, such colonies
are often not well founded at the time of swarming and can produce barely no
surplus after a swarm has issued.


Regards & Best 73s, Dave Cushman, G8MZY
http://website.lineone.net/~dave.cushman or http://www.dave-cushman.net
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