How to Catch a Swarm - Simple, catch the Queen Without a doubt the most important guarantee of successful swarm capture is to catch the queen. Catch the queen and you catch the swarm. There are a few methods used for catching a swarm including shaking them straight into the box, scooping them off a structure into the box or cutting a branch and lowering that into the box. But even if you get that swarm in the box, if the queen or the colony decides that they don’t like the new home on offer, the