In this concluding Part IV of ‘Swarming in Honey Bees’, we examine less conventional control measures that, once mastered, present opportunities to further turn the swarming impulse to good advantage. We start here where we left off in Part III, with the Demaree Plan, then examine the many merits of shook swarming. We finish where we started, seeing swarming from a honey bee perspective.

 Advanced Demaree Plan

In the previous article examining basic swarm control measures, we were int