Per Dick:

> If you crowd your bees to induce swarming the first [hive] to swarm will be the one that has the most swarmy genetics.  The second to swarm will have the second most swarmy genetics.  The one that does not swarm has the least swarmy genetics.

I get this, sound logic, presuming the relative hive densities are equivalent. This however:

> For that reason alone I consider all swarm cells to be worthless junk whose only purpose is to get sliced by my hive tool.

...seems a bit over the top, since swarming is a primary reproductive instinct of the hive.

With apologies to Roy Scheider, "We're gonna need a bigger box...."

S

Skillman, NJ

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