Last year I did not reverse my hive bodies and very few colonies
swarmed.  This year I reversed all of them and had a great number of
swarms.  Like you next year I think I will not reverse them and see
what happens.
 
Bill Hughes
Bent Holly Honey Farm
Brighton, TN  USA
 
<<Earlier this year some posts talked about not rotating hive bodies
in
the spring but letting the queen work her way down. My bees came
through
the winter in exceptional shape, no mites. So when I decided to
rotate
hive bodies, four out of five already were in the bottom box, so I
only
rotated the one hive. It is the only one that swarmed. All the
others
are in the second super - and we are not even in the main clover
honey
flow. The one that swarmed is still in the lower brood boxes. I
realize
this is only one data point and may be the exception, so I will try
it
again next year.
Bill Truesdell
Bath>>