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necessary that the beekeeper be present when the swarm 

 issues, or soon after, and they are therefore not suitable for 

 out-apiary management. 



Disposition of the brood after swarming. 



The so-called parent colony may be sufficiently populous to 

 cast an after-swarm and should therefore be managed so as to 

 prevent this and also so that the emerging bees shall be useful, 

 especially if the honey-flow will probably be of long duration. 

 The parent colony may be broken up at once by the dis- 

 tribution of the brood to other colonies, while the adhering 

 bees are added to the swarm. Another method is to destroy 

 all queen cells except one and to allow the parent colony to 

 remain intact. If the parent colony is left to requeen itself 

 by the emergence of the developing queens, it often' casts 

 an after-swarm, so it is safer either to remove all queen 

 cells except one or to remove them all and give a laying 

 queen or virgin queen. 



Still another method is to reduce the population of the 

 parent colony just before the young 

 queens emerge and to add the emerging 

 bees to the swarm. If the parent colony 

 is put back beside the swarm after the 

 swarm is hived, 

 is left there for 

 a week and is 

 then removed to 

 a new location, 

 it is so reduced 

 when the virgin 

 queens emerge 

 that an after- 

 swarm is not cast. A modification 

 of this method to be preferred 

 when the clipping of queens is prac- 

 ticed or when the queen trap is used is to set the parent 

 colony to one side with its entrance about 90° from its former 



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Fig. 112. — Manipulation to 

 reduce population of par- 

 ent colony — second po- 

 sition. Parent colony is 

 now in hive without supers. 



Fig. 111. — Manipula- 

 tion to reduce popu- 

 lation of parent 

 colony — first posi- 

 tion. Previous to 

 swarming. 



