On Sat, 25 May 1996, David. E. Goble wrote:
 
> >On Sat, 18 May 1996, David. E. Goble wrote:
> >
> >> Looking at your hive every six days is creating the situation
> >> for your bees to swarm, at the start of spring your whole hive
> >> should be inspected for swarming cells and the state of your
> >>
 
> As your situation goes, there is no difference what type of
> brood box or hive equipment, however, if your queen in the
> most productive time of each year, does not lay 1200 to 1500,
> eggs per day, (24hrs) your brood numbers will decline and your
> pollination of your plants will fail to be meet.
>
> This is because the field bees have declined, owing to the lack
> of ongoing hatching brood.
 
I don't understand your comments. My response to your earlier
post was because for the last three years every single one of
my colonies has required me to take swarm control measures,
despite various measures to give them space, ventilation,
wax-work and so on. That includes even this year with some
colonies not yet working the supers.
 
You claim that my regular inspections, which are deemed necessary
in the UK and, for me at least, appear to be so, are actually
*encouraging* the swarming. How so?
 
My problem is definitely *not* one of declining colonies.
 
Regards,
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