p.s You're right Alfred, it takes time to inspect and do all the tricks required to stop swarming each year and mine are in my garden!!!
You need to leave the queen apart from the flying bees for at least 2 weeks until the scout bees (that cause all the problems) have matured into foragers. So why not knock down supersedure cells (assuming queen is still wanted) and remove queen cells from frame in bottom box and then unite back together and no extra hives gained. Of course if you want another queen you cull the old girl and cull the queen cells back to one (many's preferred option) and take it from there.JoJo36 wrote: ↑21 Apr 2022, 19:55Maybe they've been "genetically modified" ??!!
I've used the snelgrove 2 method with one of mine and they have now drawn out 2 supercedure cells in top box with queen and in the lower box with just one frame of sealed brood and eggs various loaded queen cells wanting another queen??!! I'm going to have to join a couple of colonies else I'll run out of garden space!!
So many possibilities that don't involve increasing your number of hives.