>At a speech Tom Seeley gave about how a swarm is guided to is new home.
Tanging, shotgunning, or tossing the baby's bath water at a swarm is about redirecting the bivouac phase, not the swarm's new home selection, which Seeley described. They are two distinct phases and almost always occur separately. Some swarms know where they are headed before they leave the hive and only bivouac for a brief period before they move to their new location. Others will bivouac for days and select a site on the fly. Some will fail to find a suitable home and start building combs where they bivouac.
This thread reminds me of the persistent nature of bee lore. Wrong-headed lore is indifferent to persuasion and is actually a disguised belief system imitating, but failing in comparison to the true art of beekeeping.
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