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How important is this? I was talking to a beekeeper and she reckoned that if you pop a swarm into a new hive at night they orient to it...

It has been many a year since I have housed a bad swarm . Most of my current bees have been from a gene pool from some very yellow bees...

The ideomotor effect is definitely real.

Alternatively that article might be considered as clear evidence that people with poorly developed reasoning faculties exist :D James

http://www.dave-cushman.net/bee/leylines.html

As Dani sad, robbers will clean it out, but another good reason comes to mind: you don't know whether the old comb & honey given to you...

See, I am a complete sceptic about anything “woo” but I’d absolutely love a reason to believe any of it 😁 I remember seeing a...

Re: diseases - I put it in the freezer for two days (she advised me to), would that help at all?

*plenty of apocryphal evidence that bees are attracted to sites where energy lines intersect* Whoa! Really?? 😮

That’s great thank you very much!

Ta!

all you will get is bees robbing the honey out and fighting rather than bees scouting for a new home

I do like the way The Apiarist writes.

See now I don’t know if you’re being sarcastic… 😳

See this is where it’s very confusing. I’ve been told: Spray sugar solution around the inside of the hive. Don’t do that. Have a super...