Look up hive drumming It is the way beekeepers have moved bees out of skeps and log gums in the past. Before bee go and honey robber. Once the queen has vacated with all the bees place on top of a queen excluder to let the bees emerge. If they have swarm cells in the flower pot allow enough bees to come back in to care for the brood them put them on top of the hive and let them raise a new queen and hatch out most of the brood then drum them out.
From an paper on Removing Bees publisged by
MAAREC, the Mid-Atlantic Apiculture Research and Extension Consortium
University of Delaware Newark, Delaware
DRUMMING
Another method of transferring bees is by drumming them out of the old hive. To drum bees, remove the bottom of the old hive and turn it upside down. Place a new hive with drawn comb or foundation on top of the inverted box and close all openings. Drum vigorously with a rubber mallet, stick or hammer on the side of the old hive continuously for eight to ten minutes. This causes the bees and queen to move upward. Smoking the old colony before drumming is also helpful in starting the bees upward. When most of the bees have moved up into the new hive, a queen excluder is then placed between the new and old equipment and an upper entrance provided. After several days, the new hive should be checked for evidence of the queen. If the queen is not above, the queen excluder must be removed and the drumming process repeated. Three weeks later, after the queen has been confined above and all the brood has emerged below, the old hive may be removed and discarded.
A variation of the above procedure would be to remove the combs from the old nest immediately after drumming the adult bees out and piecing the comb into empty frames for the new hive. This is accomplished by cutting large pieces of brood comb and then arranging them on a flat surface in empty frames. The pieces are held in place by wrapping string or stretching rubber bands around the frames. It is advisable to transfer only comb containing worker brood. Empty comb or comb with drone brood should be discarded. Comb with honey can be cut so the bees may rob it or pieced into frames as above for worker food.
The advantage of drumming is that it is quick and requires little manipulation by the beekeeper. When brood comb is cut and placed into frames the colony will expand quickly in its new home and have a good chance of winter survival.
From an paper on Removing Bees publisged by
MAAREC, the Mid-Atlantic Apiculture Research and Extension Consortium
University of Delaware Newark, Delaware
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