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"Taranov Split" of the neighbors hive.

It was getting ready to swarm (queen cells). So we shook out all the bees onto this ramp. The older bees will cross the gap and go back into the old hive (with the only a couple of queen cells and most of the brood). The younger bees and queen won't cross that gap. They think they are a swarm.

Put the 'swarm' into a new hive (no queen cells).

Here's a link that describes the process:

taranov split


Hopefully it works.