Paul Hitchiner
New Bee
I need to move a hive to a new site, by (hatchback) car. August seems to be the worst time to do it as the hive will be its heaviest, and the move seems to have to be done at night, when the bees are asleep in in the hive, after 10.00pm.
The hive will be too heavy to move as a whole, so I am thinking of splitting it up into Brood super and the Honey super. Any tips in keeping the bees, disturbed and angry, from being woken up, in their hive, and not in the car? I plan to put the split hive in a cardboard box, seal it up, and drive, smoker at the ready.
Worried and nervous.
The hive will be too heavy to move as a whole, so I am thinking of splitting it up into Brood super and the Honey super. Any tips in keeping the bees, disturbed and angry, from being woken up, in their hive, and not in the car? I plan to put the split hive in a cardboard box, seal it up, and drive, smoker at the ready.
Worried and nervous.