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> Pete, what were the nuts and bolts of "removing bees judiciously"?
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Your goal is to remove excess bees in order to keep the colony in a
constant increase mode. If you remove too much, it slows the colony down.
If you remove too little, the colony will either reach their desired
population size or will swarm. It's an art more than a science.

In the June/July editions of ABJ I published a two part article comparing
management styles of Checkerboarding, Snelgrove, Doubles and Singles,
judiciously removing brood (from doubles and singles) in an attempt to see
which could produce the largest return (in both bees and honey). If you
want me to send you a copy of the article off thread let me know. It
involved a somewhat small sample size, so I can't say the results are in
any way definitive, but there was a surprising difference between the
management systems.

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