I'm enjoying some great videos of Michael Palmer at the National Honey Show. He explained a comb honey production technique where you hive a swarm, move the issuing colony behind it's original stand and put the hived swarm at the location of the parent hive. You'll get a new colony in swarm mode drawing out new comb like crazy and get the benefit of all the parent colony's foragers in full force bringing back resources to the new swarm. Lots of new comb builders and lots of resources coming in to maximize build out speed.
Last year I was lucky enough to be at home to witness a swarm build up in the air. I brought the swarm down and hived it. However I could only speculate on which hive it came from. Are there telltale signs you can observe to know exactly which of your hives the swarm issued from?
Last year I was lucky enough to be at home to witness a swarm build up in the air. I brought the swarm down and hived it. However I could only speculate on which hive it came from. Are there telltale signs you can observe to know exactly which of your hives the swarm issued from?