Tag Archives: Moving hive

New adventures

Posted on March 3, 2019 by

“So what are you going to do with the bees?” it was the first question that anyone asked when I said I was moving house. The bees had lived for two years in a back-garden hive but now the tenancy was coming … Continue reading →

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Moving hives less than 3 miles

Posted on February 21, 2019 by

The “3 foot / 3 mile” rule-of-thumb refers to how if you move a hive more than 3 feet, sometimes returning foragers cannot find it. Their internal maps are so precise they get confused, and keep looking where the entrance … Continue reading →

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Moving a hive

Posted on February 4, 2018 by

We moved some horizontal Top Bar Hives today, partly because they were a bit visible from the road and there has been an increase in vandalism in this neighbourhood. There is a well known adage that you must move a … Continue reading →

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