Flying bees returning to garden

[maz0]

Three hives moved 0.92 miles. One each day.

Hive 1 calm hive ...closed entrance with mesh and crown board replaced with mesh. OMF

Hive 2 nasty hive same as above. OMF

Hive 3 Paynes NUC with just entrance clsoed with mesh.

Note: no grass or twigs across entrance.

Left hive 1 for 2 days. High bee losses. Had to shake floor free of hundreds of bees No original site (OS) returns.

Left hive 2 for 24 hours. Very little returns to OS. Minimal losses (a few as one would expect). Utter killing machines 50 to 100 in attack formation. Haveny enjoyed the disruption one bit.

Left hive 3 and opened. All good, minimal losses.

Conclusion 24 hours for 1 mile is good. Difficult to know what "field" losses there are. In future will simply stick with 24 hour "lock - in".

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Was there plenty of stores for hive 1 when you locked them in?

Thanks for the update

 

[JonnyPicklechin]

Was there plenty of stores for hive 1 when you locked them in?

Thanks for the update

Yes....I think they were suffocated.