Swarm Control Methods and Information.

Swarming can be  the beekeepers  nightmare. When bees swarm, The queen along with all the foraging bees leave. This means that your honey coming into the hive is stopped until the bees that are left in the hive become foragers and can start to bring nectar back into the hive.

In the hive you are left with  only house and nurse bees and larvae. These eat honey and produce non. Depending on what time of the year they swarm, can mean you losing an entire honey crop thus working all year for nothing. You have a new virging queen which will have to be mated, start to lay which takes weeks to get her into full 2000 eggs per day production. So all in all its a bad situation. As for the ones that have swarmed, if they are not caught it is more or less a death warrant for them.  Also you could have trouble with where they have gone too as some people are not happy with say 20000 bees coming onto their property.

 Now you cannot prevent them from swarmings its natural and the only way they can multiply and increase, so the only way is to do some king of artificial swarm method. There are a few methods and beneath are a few that are proven to be OK.

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