laying worker merger issue

[Erichalfbee]

If someone drove 3 miles and dumped bees near my apiary ......

Yep.

 

[Cuckmere couple]

sorry...didnt realise that was a no no

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

We just can't understand why

 

[Cuckmere couple]

why i shook them out?

because i thought theyd disperse into other apiary rather than all congregate back on the colony they had been next to...probably being a bit daft

 

[Boston Bees]

why i shook them out?

because i thought theyd disperse into other apiary rather than all congregate back on the colony they had been next to...probably being a bit daft

You've got this now, I know, and we all do things once and learn from them, so don't worry about it. But just to be clear, you should never shake bees out a long way (i.e. more than couple of hundred yards) from their original location, because otherwise there is a risk they go into someone else's hives, and if your bees have foul brood, or some other disease, or even a load of varroa ...... well, you get the picture.

There are other reasons not to do it, but this is the biggest one from a responsible-beekeeping of view.

 

[Cuckmere couple]

You've got this now, I know, and we all do things once and learn from them, so don't worry about it. But just to be clear, you should never shake bees out a long way (i.e. more than couple of hundred yards) from their original location, because otherwise there is a risk they go into someone else's hives, and if your bees have foul brood, or some other disease, or even a load of varroa ...... well, you get the picture.

There are other reasons not to do it, but this is the biggest one from a responsible-beekeeping of view.

understood....