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BBKA
On the original stand put an empty brood box, we will call B, and floor. Transfer the following frames from brood box A to brood box B: 2 frames of unsealed brood and eggs, outside of these 2 frames of sealed and emerging brood placed outside the first frames and outside these 2 good frames of stored honey/pollen. This is where the importance of the early spring preparation shows. Close up the frames in A and B and fill the boxes with drawn comb or foundation. (I also use 2,3 & 4 frame dummies) It is important to fill up the gap or wild comb will be built. Release the queen in box A. This is not the same as the Artificial Swarm Pagden Method, rather the opposite because no queen cells are built yet so we have to have a strong queenless stock on the original stand with the flying bees for good queen cells to be started.
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