Quote Originally Posted by Dark Bee View Post
Well done. Bees will move up into a box readily enough, getting them to go down into one is difficult. It sounds as if your bees were not too far from swarming. Any Q. cells? How big was the split in relation to the full colony?
About a third stayed with the queen.

Checked today. She's laying, which is a relief!

Quote Originally Posted by Calum View Post
Sounds terrible. Not in accordance with the principles of magazine bee keeping at all.
Why not just use the brood seperation method?
Because I wanted to try it, to see if it woould work. I'm also rubbish at finding the queen, so shaking them was a risk.