Rereading Donald Sims Sixty Years with Bees I was interested to see he suggests quite frequently using a Taranov board to artificially swarm.
As I understand it, It is simply a wooden ramp against hive entrance with the gap between the top of the ramp and the entrance meaning as bees are shaken in to it, they separate into queen and younger bees clustering under the lip of the ramp and the older bees going back into the hive. It allows an Artificial Swarm to be made with advanced QC’s without finding the queen - other options also exist there obviously.
It used to be mentioned quite a lot years ago but seems to be rarely talked about nowadays. I rather dismissed it as a bit of a visual stunt but is that fair? I have never tried it - has anyone else?
As I understand it, It is simply a wooden ramp against hive entrance with the gap between the top of the ramp and the entrance meaning as bees are shaken in to it, they separate into queen and younger bees clustering under the lip of the ramp and the older bees going back into the hive. It allows an Artificial Swarm to be made with advanced QC’s without finding the queen - other options also exist there obviously.
It used to be mentioned quite a lot years ago but seems to be rarely talked about nowadays. I rather dismissed it as a bit of a visual stunt but is that fair? I have never tried it - has anyone else?