How to Prevent Your Bees from Swarming

There a number of ways of preventing honeybees from swarming, but the easiest is way is simply to make sure that your bees have sufficient room. Your honeybees need sufficient space to store honey and the queen needs space to lay eggs to produce more worker bees. Lack of such space can lead to swarming. Most of what is required is simply good hive management. Here are some things you should do:

• Check your hives regularly.
• Harvest the honey before the honey box is completely full.
• Replace the frames in the hive quickly.
• Put some of the full frames from the brood box, up into the honey box. Put some empty frames from the honey box back into the brood box when the brood box is full.
• Give the bees more room by giving them a 3^rd box . Put this box in between the brood box and the honey box.

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