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General Q&A, Bee chat and only Bee chat please
 #11317  by AdamD
 25 Jun 2021, 11:41
Mattbat is right to consider whether a caught swarm will leave as sometimes they will decide that they don't like the hive you have given them and I would certainly consider putting a queen excluder under one I had just caught from my own apiary. I have never lost a caught swarm from elsewhere that I have moved to my own site. (But there is always a first!).
If the swarm is flying from a correx nuc box, then it looks like it will stay.
If there is no polynuc or something available which would allow the swarm to be fed, I would be inclined to put it in a standard hive and feed it to get it to draw foundation. (Don't be too excited about the exact sugar/water mix). A mated queen should be laying in a couple of days. If to err on the side of caution, an excluder was put underneath, it can be removed after 2 or 3 days. This will allow the queen to go out and mate if she hasn't dome so already.
 #11344  by MickBBKA
 28 Jun 2021, 23:12
I never picked up on that, thanks for pointing it out it will help save him some confusion.