. Swarm control. Bees. Swarm Control 15 supers and separated from them by a queen excluder while the parent colony Is above the supers. Nine or ten days after the swarm has issued any queen cells that the bees may have built in the parent colony dur- ing this interval should be destroyed. Under certain conditions, not yet fully explained, this has not been found necessary if the parent colony is separated from the swarm by at least two full-depth extracting supers, but with less than this distance be- tween, such colonies may swarm when the young queens in the parent colony begin to emerge. If
. Swarm control. Bees. Swarm Control 15 supers and separated from them by a queen excluder while the parent colony Is above the supers. Nine or ten days after the swarm has issued any queen cells that the bees may have built in the parent colony dur- ing this interval should be destroyed. Under certain conditions, not yet fully explained, this has not been found necessary if the parent colony is separated from the swarm by at least two full-depth extracting supers, but with less than this distance be- tween, such colonies may swarm when the young queens in the parent colony begin to emerge. If increase is desired, this brood chamber may be taken away a week after the swarm has issued, to form a new colony. In this ease the queen cells should not be destroyed. If too many bees cling to the old brood chamber the bees from all but three or four of the combs may be shaken into the supers in order to strengthen the swarm and also to make the parent colony too weak to cast an afterswarm. The combs containing. V*- FiG. 5.—Cage arranged to catch, issuing swarm. Especially useful when several swarms' issue at about the same time the best queen cells should not be shaken because of the danger of in- juring the immature queens. If some combs having queen cells are shaken the cells should be destroyed to pre- vent the emergence of any injured queens. If choice queen cells from a breeding queen are available, all the cells on the combs from the parent colony should be destftoyed and one of the choice cells should be given. When comb honey is being produced the parent colony can not well be united with the swarm directly in this way, but it should be left beside the swarm six or seven days, for on the eighth day the parent colony would normalljr cast its first afterswarm. It should then be moved away and given a new location well separated from other colonies In another part of the apiary. This should be done when the young bees that have learned to fly during the week are flyi
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