LMK17
Loving the herd life
We moved our hive from the waaaay back of our property closer to the house this weekend. We used the forced reorinentation/branch in front of the entrance method, and it seems to have largely worked. We've confirmed that we have bees returning to the new location loaded down with pollen. Yay!
That said, we also followed the advice that I found... somewhere... and placed an empty nuc box in the old hive location to catch any bees that might have gotten confused and gone "home" to the old location. It's been 2 days. I checked the nuc box this evening and there were bees flying into it. I'm not sure if these are bees who failed to reorientate and got "lost" in their way home to the new hive location or it they were out in the field when we moved the hive and returned to find that the hive was gone. Regardless, I'd like to try and get them back to their hive.
Any suggestions on how to get them back "home" (to the hive in the new location) and get them to accept that as their new address?
That said, we also followed the advice that I found... somewhere... and placed an empty nuc box in the old hive location to catch any bees that might have gotten confused and gone "home" to the old location. It's been 2 days. I checked the nuc box this evening and there were bees flying into it. I'm not sure if these are bees who failed to reorientate and got "lost" in their way home to the new hive location or it they were out in the field when we moved the hive and returned to find that the hive was gone. Regardless, I'd like to try and get them back to their hive.
Any suggestions on how to get them back "home" (to the hive in the new location) and get them to accept that as their new address?