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Queen Bee
Is there enough confusion in uniting bees to allow you to unite a colony from one end of the apiary to a colony at the other end?
Or do I need to unite them to a new apiary or somehow get them beside each other before uniting?
I think the standard advice is to get them nearby.
What I have done is to put the moved hive on top (of the paper), so they don't get out until they realise something rather significant has changed (especially if you delay them with a double thickness of newspaper). So they reset the GPS. And that seems to work for me and movements of up to 10 yards in my garden.