It was more of a rhetorical question, meant to make a point more so then a judgement as to whether he was or wasn’t currently doing exactly that. Perhaps not the best delivery or wording choice but sometimes you swing and miss, sometimes you knock it out of the park. Can’t win them all right?
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DextersShed, Thank You for this post. for I felt I was being criticized for just trying to understand.
at the bottom of this came out of another communication that I thought was good. I would like to pass it on. This is where I am in my education, I am trying to understand what is needed and what is best. There is a lot of great input on this forum and all of it is like many of us it is an opinion and best practice for the area in which we live any type of environment we wish to keep. There are too many factors in every decision we make even in life. So understanding that in being kind to each other and the bees is a necessity.
Bees are trying to tolerate us with all our Wi-Fi or chemicals and are changing environment so what was good hundred years ago may not be good today. Then again it may be just what bee’s need in order to build up a tolerance for our Global mistakes
this is the quote from a previous communication from someone
I just think in general most people do too much mucking about in their hives and bees don’t like it. Even if they tolerate it or are docile while doing it, they still don’t like it. There is quite a bit of research out there that points to too much intrusion and rearrangement or interfering as a primary reason for many hives wanting to swarm. Bees want a safe secure hive, if something/someone is constantly tearing their home apart they’re likely to want to move on to a better home. And could you really blame them. I definitely subscribe to a much more hands off approach to beekeeping.
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Actually I didn’t know what I was asking 
someone earlier made a comment that lead me to believe one may be killing or destroying larvae, in order to control the hive growth. What you’re describing makes a lot of sense and I did not think about it but I will now plan on some sort of dating the frames. For I do a lot of backpacking for several days and I have a solar panel to recharge the batteries. I’ve numbered those batteries in order to insure rotation. So what you’re describing makes a whole lot of sense to me. Being a backyard beekeeper probably no more than a super and a drood box.
An absolutely yes, Time is among the best education. For I absolutely love this quote
Good judgment comes from experience
Experience comes from dad judgment
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There is quite a bit of research out there that points to too much intrusion and rearrangement or interfering as a PRIMARYreason for many hives wanting to swarm.
Please, I don’t think this is really true.
Swarming is a natural bee thing. It’s what bees do to reproduce. If they didn’t swarm they would die out. Now absconding is a different matter.
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I tend to agree with @dangerous, swarming is colony reproduction, mucking too much with the hive may cause the bees to abscond, however I very much doubt it and I have never heard of this happening. We don’t want to people to get the wrong idea about brood inspections as this is an extremely important process of keeping bees to ensure the health & survival of your colony.
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I had a queen-less colony abscond after I sieved it for a non existent queen.
I went to check the brood boxes the next day and they were totally empty of bees.
I had only just begun beekeeping and I didn’t realise what a horrible thing I was doing to the colony. They did find homes in two neighbouring hives. I know because the bees were a different colour to the others.
Excellent quote Marty! I have been using that approach but could not have said it so well.
I would just like to kindly remind everyone that this is a communal learning and sharing area.
We don’t have body language or tone to communicate, so the way we type is important. The use of different typesets, or the way we refer to someone can seem aggressive, pointing the finger, etc.
If we have a different opinion - that is okay - this forum is about sharing knowledge.
There are new-bees and old-bee keepers 
Some are trying to get the most information possible before they get their Flow Frames or Hives so that they can care for their bees the best they can, others just need specific knowledge in relation to Flow Frames and how they integrate with existing hives.
Lets all try and stay positive, and look out for one another’s feelings whilst sharing together 