Pagden artificial swarm method

A demo of the Pagden method of swarm control (Artificial swarming) - done in late April, earlier than in most years. The method involves separating the queen and the older foraging (flying) bees from the nurse bees and brood. The queen is move to a new box on the original site The brood and younger nurse bees are in the original box moved aside and will raise queen cells which often need to be thinned to one selected cell to avoid cast swarms.