Cloake Board as a Swarm Control

[D. Murrell]

Hi Guys,

If you've read about my checker boarding test, you know that I've got some hives that are ready to swarm. And it's that time of year to raise a few queens. So I took one of the hives and installed a Cloake board.

Those manipulations through closing and opening the slide effectively put an end to the swarming impulse. I assume that the manipulations of a Snellgrove board have the same effect. I don't know much about it though.

Regards
Dennis

[wayacoyote]

Dennis,
So you simply followed standard Cloake process for queen rearing and it also helped the swarming without any specific timing, etc??

Here's the best description of Snellgrove I've found so far:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~jtemp/snelgrove.html

Waya

[Brent Bean]

Snellgrove has a book published “ Swarming it’s control and prevention” I got my copy form BetterBee.com it has many different methods for using the snellgrove board. I have used it on hives that were probably within hours of swarming and had good luck in preventing them form swarming. I have found the snellgrove board useful in re-queening also.
Your description of a Cloake board sound similar to the Snellgrove board.

[wayacoyote]

Cloake Board in use (per Dave Cushman's informative site):
http://www.dave-cushman.net/bee/method2.html

Waya