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Preventing swarms by using queen excluder

Ersten
18 years ago

What harmful effects would happen if a queen excluder is placed just above the bottom board to prevent the queen from swarming?

Would doing that end the swarming instinct?

Would the instinct to swarm be so great that the workers would still go ahead and create queen swarm cells, and the resulting queens fight amongst each other and the old queen?

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