>why not doing it the other way around? I mean, as you have everything >palletized, why not moving the "mother" hives and leaving the nucs/splits >in their position to receive the forager? Good thought. The problem is that there is one mother hive and a number of splits. Another is that last year, the bees did not behave as expected and I had drifting that was problematic, evvne though I thought I had compensated in the size of the splits. I'd really like it if I can place all hives where I want them without fear of unpredicatble drifting. >What ever, each beekeeping is local. That is right and odd things happen here when doing spring splits. The most reliable and trouble-free system that worked for me for many years has been to simply do side-by-side splits and let one half raise its own quees. One year I did that twice, to the same hives with very good results. I did not quite get four hives out of each orginal hive since we always lose a few queens over summer, but I was not even home most of the time and hardly did any work at all. However, I don't want to do this the easy and cheapo way that works every time and takes minutes instead of hours -- and does not involve buying any new toys or chemicals or asking for advice. What would I have to write about? >If you try with AN please tell us the results. Will do, but now I am thinking... *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html Guidelines for posting to BEE-L can be found at: http://honeybeeworld.com/bee-l/guidelines.htm