Hives Not Always Full Before Swarming
Categories:
HIVES.
Bee Keeping:
Mysteries Of Bee-keeping Explained
I know Weeks, Colton, Miner and others, tell us the hive _must be full_
before we need expect a swarm; but experience is against them. Bees do
sometimes cast a swarm before filling the hive. From close observation,
I find when a hive is very large, say 4,000 cubic inches, and is filled
with comb, the first season, that such seldom swarm except in very good
years.