RogerJ
New Bee
- Joined
- Mar 3, 2015
- Messages
- 68
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- Location
- Herefordshire
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 5
I had a swarm arrive in a poly nuc yesterday (up in tree); waited till 21:30 last night and moved apiary position about 100m away. Added frames of foundation this morning and all seems well. However at the sight where the bait hive came from there are quite "a lot" of bees; I was going to put another bait hive in that location anyway so I have done so which the bees seem to find "interesting".
So are these bees just flyers from the previous swarm who have returned to the location where the queen was last or is it something else? If the former how do I persuade them to return home?
So are these bees just flyers from the previous swarm who have returned to the location where the queen was last or is it something else? If the former how do I persuade them to return home?