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- From: Randall Austin <ra41717 AT gmail.com>
- To: Michael Baucom <mbaucom AT outlook.com>, Orange County Bees <ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [ocba] Hive Relocation Question
- Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 15:40:41 -0400
Michael,
In my opinion, this whole issue gets blown way out of
proportion. It isn't a life-or-death type of thing. Only about 15
percent or so of your colony are foragers -- those are the only
ones that are at risk in a move. If your colony is strong, it can
lose half, or all, of those and hardly notice, at least not in the
long run. I've seen people get all worked up about moving and
confine the bees for several days for no good bee-biology reason,
putting them at high risk of suffocation and heat prostration,
which would affect all of the colony. Thinking they may
save a few they end up killing them all.
So, with respect to the bees themselves, just move them in the late evening the way you have done before and don't worry about it one bit.
Now if the people moving into your old house are coming in the
next day, you may want to come by that morning and scoop up any
stragglers that you see aggregating at the old hive site. That
would be the "good neighbor beekeeper" thing to do. Or to do it
really well, you could leave a nuc box or similar, with a frame of
old comb, at the old site and retrieve it the next night.
Does this help?
Randall On 3/27/2017 2:15 PM, Michael Baucom
wrote:
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[ocba] Hive Relocation Question,
Michael Baucom, 03/27/2017
- Re: [ocba] Hive Relocation Question, Randall Austin, 03/27/2017
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