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HUMOR IS A FUNNY THING / Re: Run o' the Mill Jokes
« Last post by Ben Framed on Today at 06:53:16 pm »Not thats funny!!!!!
Though some say you can put a limb or stick in from of a newly moved hive for reorientation the next morning, it never worked for me. There is always the two foot for two mile rule to consider..I did the night they came in but when I got up in the morning, they were inundated with ants and I got scared so I moved them back before sunrise. I didn't want to wait too long to move them so I moved them last night after they settled down. Even then, some of them were out front and had to be sacrificed. I don't just have a limb or a stick, I have a whole wall built with lemongrass stalks with room enough for them to go through. There are pictures of what it looks like posted above. They are out there doing orientation flights all day. I'd say about 50 of them are/were hanging around the empty hive I put in the place of the hive I moved. I don't know if those are just foragers who didn't make back yesterday or what but in the grand scheme of things, there aren't that many over there. Between moving them back and forth, I treated the ground for ants and it looks like I did the job there.
Didn't you move some bees a few days ago?
OK, I moved my swarm hive into location near my nuc hive last night and I am getting a mix of orientation flights and bees going to the old spot. I put a single medium box with empty foundation at the old location. How many bees can I expect to go back to the old spot and what do I do with them? The new location has a veil around it of lemongrass stalks from our lemongrass plants. It's there but has plenty of space for them to get through it.