Dr. Eoghan Mac Giolla Coda presents "Swarm Prevention and Control"
Channel: FIBKA
Date: 2021-04-01

In this talk, Eoghan will explain why bees swarm and how to manage their instinctive urge to do so, to reduce the risk of them swarming. He will also explain how to manage the colony when they have already decided to swarm, to control what happens in order to reduce the risk of losing half the bees.

Eoghan spoke about Jeroen Vorstman's method (https://bijenclub.com/wp-content/upload_folders/bijenclub.com/2017/04/koninginnenteelt-queen-rearing.pdf) and referenced Tom Seeley's writings on swarming (https://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/2653 and his book "Honeybee Democracy" - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8705048-honeybee-democracy).