30 BEES. 
it may simply be sawed off and the bees carried to the hive and 
thrown on a sheet or hive cover in front of the entrance. If the 
limb can not be cut, the swarm can be shaken off into a box or basket 
on a pole and hived. [ff the bees light on the trunk of a tree or in 
some inaccessible place they can first be attracted away by a comb, 
preferably containing unsealed brood. In these manipulations it 
is not necessary to get all the bees, but if the queen is not with those 
which are put into the hive the bees will go into the air again and join 
the cluster. . 
If a queen is clipped as recommended under ‘‘Spring management” 
(p. 29) the swarm will issue just the same, but the queen, not being 
able to fly, will simply wander about on the ground in front of the 
hive, where she can be caught and caged. The parent colony can 
then be removed to a new stand and a new hive put in its place. 
The bees will soon return and the queen can be freed among them 
as they enter. The field bees on returning will enter the new hive 
with the swarm, thus decreasing still more the parent colony and 
making a second swarm less probable. To make sure of this, how- 
ever, all queen cells except one good one can be removed soon after 
the swarm issues. Another method of preventing second swarms is 
to set the old hive beside the swarm and in a week move the old hive 
to another place. The field bees of the parent colony then join the 
swarm and the parent colony is so much reduced that a second 
swarm does not issue. 
To hold a swarm it is desirable to put one frame containing healthy 
unsealed brood in the new hive. The other frames may contain full 
sheets or starters of foundation. Usually comb-honey supers or sur- 
plus bodies for extracting frames will have been put on before swarming 
occurs. These are given to the swarm on the old stand and separated 
from the brood chamber by queen-excluding perforated zine. In three 
or four days the perforated zinc may be removed if desired. 
When clipping the queen’s wing is not practiced, swarms may be 
prevented from leaving by the use of queen traps of perforated zine 
(fig. 6). These allow the workers to pass out, but not drones or 
queens, which, on leaving the entrance, pass up to an upper com- 
partment from which they can not return. These are also used for 
keeping undesirable drones from escaping, and the drones die of 
starvation. When a swarm issues from a hive provided with a queen 
trap the queen goes to the upper compartment and remains there 
until released by the bee keeper. The workers soon return to the 
hive. When the operator discovers the queen outside, the colony 
may be artificially swarmed to prevent another attempt at natural 
swarming. A queen trap should not be kept on the hive all the time 
for fear the old queen may be superseded and the young queen pre- 
vented from flying out to mate. 
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