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- From: Randall Austin <ra41717 AT gmail.com>
- To: kirsten.bothwell AT gmail.com
- Cc: John Rintoul <beecd AT icloud.com>, Orange County Bees <ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [ocba] Swarm resettlement
- Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2017 11:56:09 -0400
Re: "I heard its best to start a captured swarm a few miles away
from their original hive for a few weeks. Is that the general rule
of thumb?" No, for the reason I mentioned. There is no basis for
doing that with swarms. I have hived plenty of swarms from my own
bee yard back into my own bee yard. In your case, the bees decided
that they could "trade up" from the space you gave them and so
left to do so. That wasn't a function of the location where you
placed them. The exact same thing can happen with package bees
(they can abscond after being installed, even though they are
hundreds of miles from where they started), although fortunately
it isn't very common. One thing you can do to help "nail down" a swarm or a package is
to put a frame of open brood from another hive into the new hive.
Well-behaved bees will not abandon brood. If that doesn't work,
try the '57 Chevy carburetor. Randall Austin On 3/18/2017 10:40 AM,
kirsten.bothwell AT gmail.com wrote:
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[ocba] Swarm resettlement,
John Rintoul, 03/17/2017
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Re: [ocba] Swarm resettlement,
Randall Austin, 03/17/2017
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Re: [ocba] Swarm resettlement,
kirsten . bothwell, 03/18/2017
- Re: [ocba] Swarm resettlement, Randall Austin, 03/18/2017
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Re: [ocba] Swarm resettlement,
kirsten . bothwell, 03/18/2017
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Re: [ocba] Swarm resettlement,
Randall Austin, 03/17/2017
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