On 3-Apr-11, at 11:29 AM, J. Waggle wrote:

>>
>
> IMO, if a bait hive is used near the yard, it is
> being used in the wrong manner.
> -bees seldom select a void closer than
> 300 m (Seeley, Morse)
>

Hi All

3 years ago on the day we were leaving for our annual trip to  
Ireland, I was checking my hives one last time.  I found a hive with  
many capped queen cells that I had previously missed.  I didn't have  
time to find the queen so split the 2 boxes to separate stands.  I  
then piled several boxes of comb in front of, with entrance facing,  
the two halves of the hive, then left for the airport.  The luck of  
the Irish (I'm not Irish but my granddaughter is) defeated my PPB as  
all three stacks had foraging bees coming and going when I returned  
after 2 weeks.  All three had laying queens when I later checked the  
hives

Bob Darrell
Caledon Ontario
Canada
44N80W ( I don't have a GPS so these co-ords are 20km from my bees  
but close enough to see where I am on a map)

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