Artificial
Swarm
- Get equipment ready: Floor, Brood chamber with
prepared frames, Crown board, Lifts (if you have a WBC),
and Roof
- Remove roof (and lifts) from parent hive
- Keeping crown board in place lift all supers from
parent hive and place on upturned roof (or lift).
- Remove queen excluder from parent hive and place to
side of hive
- Place spare crown board on parent hive and move floor
and brood box intact to new location 4-5 feet to right of
old location.
- Place new floor and brood chamber on site of old
location with entrance in same direction as the
original.
- Remove centre frame from new brood chamber and place
beside hive in new location.
- Remove crown board on parent hive and search for
queen.
- Remove the frame with the old queen to the new brood
box after having destroyed any queen cells that exist on
this frame.
- Place crown board back on parent hive.
- Put queen excluder back on new brood chamber and
replace supers on new brood chamber.
- Return to new location. Remove crown board and close
up frames and insert the blank frame to one side and
replace crown board.
- Replace old roof (and lifts) on old site and new roof
(and lift) on new site.