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- Mar 11, 2021
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- Location
- Glossop, North Derbyshire
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 4 to 12!
I think it was last year I had a small fist sized clump of bees underneath where I had collected a swarm (queen wasn't with them) which refused to move. I put a few drops of benzaldehyde on a paper towel & put that near them, it prompted them into the air apart from the ones that chose to burrow further under the tree roots instead, but they definitely moved away from it ++. I've often wondered if it would deter a recently arrived swarm & make it "abscond".