retrieving a swarm

[darren64]

if you lose a swarm then manage to recapture it,is it ok to relocate it next to its original location,or will the bees orientate back to the original hive?

 

[VEG]

along side has worked for me in the past, but I like to move them out of the apiary for a while just so they actually have moved.

 

[dudley]

I caught 3 of my swarms last year before they took flight away from the apiary. I hived them were they swarmed, they stayed, but that meant I had hives in the garden all over the place. One settled on a potted xmas tree that my wife was waiting to plant. So that colony stayed in the middle of the lawn. You must have priorities.
Strange as we have a farm and they always settle in the garden, not on any of my other land. They must have a preference to non native ornamental trees and potted shrubs on mowed lawn. I have recently moved them away so I can return them to a better position in the apiary, its nothing to do with my wife moaning at me, honest.

 

[Erichalfbee]

On the same hive stand three feet from the parent colony has been OK for me.
Swarms have a prior location mind wipe

 

[susbees]

On the same hive stand three feet from the parent colony has been OK for me.
Swarms have a prior location mind wipe

And I'm out of queen excluders!!