Do you keep your hives together or spread them out?

[SaraR]

I have my hives arranged in a large circle working them from the outside of the circle. Bees rise up from the centre of the circle.

Interesting, what's the diameter of the circle?

 

[Quis Custodiet]

Pedantically it probably doesn't eliminate drifting. What it eliminates is the accumulation of drifted bees in any particular hive (row end, for example). I'd bet that microsatellite analysis would still show an unhealthy mix ...

You may well have a point re, drifting. Microsatellite analysis and unhealthy mixes.....I'm not sure about those