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Dave Green <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 28 Jan 2002 06:55:20 -0500
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From: "Rodney Farrar" <[log in to unmask]>

  The subject gets beat to death every year, so a search of the Bee list
archives could garner a lot of info:
http://listserv.albany.edu:8080/cgi-bin/wa?S1=bee-l

    Two basic principles:  1.  A queen, in her first year, is unlikely to
swarm, unless the brood chamber gets crowded.  2. A second-year queen is
programed to swarm, and you most likely will not stop her, only delay her,
by swarm control techniques. Many times a delayed old queen will swarm
later, out of season, and the swarm has little chance of survival, plus the
original colony has a hard time as well, trying to get a queen mated when
it's not the normal season.

    I figure the bees want to reproduce, so why fight it?  I help them
reproduce, by making nucs, trying to be a few days ahead of their schedule.
They they are satisfied, having reproduced, and settle back down to work.


Dave Green   SC  USA
The Pollination Home Page: http://pollinator.com

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