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What To Do With Bees Coming Out Of Winter: Part III
(Details Of Demaree Swarm Prevention Method)
by David Burns, EAS certified Master Beekeeper
It's important for beekeepers to be well prepared to properly manage hives that have survived the winter. In our last installment we looked
into the very challenging task of swarm prevention. I'm using an acronym to make it easier to remember 6 important management practices to
implement in the SPRING.
Stimulate For Rapid Foraging Force
Prevent Swarms
Rotate Hive Bodies
Inspect The Productivity Of The Queen
New Queen
Give 1:1 Sugar Water & Pollen Patties
Several had trouble understanding what I last wrote on the Demaree swarm prevention method. In my attempt to simplify the Demaree
method of swarm prevention, I think I may have made it difficult to understand. So today, let's take a more detailed look into this swarm
prevention method. The Demaree method is a way of separating the queen from the brood.
For demonstration, our hive under consideration will have two deep hive bodies and let's assume the queen is laying well and there is capped and
uncapped brood throughout the two deep hive bodies.
1) Examine the frames and cage the queen so that you do not injure her while moving frames
2) Move frames of capped and uncapped brood into the upper deep hive body. If both deep hive bodies have brood that will not fit into the upper
deep hive body, use a third deep hive body. Replace the brood frames that you moved up with empty drawn combs
3) Place the queen (release her if she is in a cage) into the bottom deep hive body and place a queen excluder to hold her down into this bottom deep
hive box.
4) Now, place drawn comb into a new deep hive body and place it on top of the bottom deep that has the queen excluder on it (in the middle of the
two deeps).
5) In 7 to 10 days go through the upper hive body and destroy all queen cells. Since the queen is held down to the bottom of the hive, this upper box
could start raising their own queen. But once you destroy any cells, they cannot raise another one because the brood is too old to raise a queen. Now
you can remove the queen excluder. The bees have been given more room, the queen has been given more room and no bees have been lost due to
swarming. And the bees will begin to fill the upper hive body once the brood has emerged.
...in our next article The Details of Reversing Hive Bodies
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IN THE NEWS....
Beekeepers Are Gearing Up To Pollinate The Almonds In California
After World War II there were 9 million hives in the US. Now there are only 2.5 million and one half of those hives are needed in California
for almond pollination...Read more
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