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Artificial Swarm
An artificial swarm is a manually created swarm without brood, where bees are shaken from combs into a swarm box and given a mated or virgin queen. This method is used for colony multiplication and also serves as a varroa sanitation technique since the brood-free period disrupts mite reproduction. The bees are housed on fresh foundation to start with clean comb.
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