can you move your hives to an isolated area?  Yes, I believe there are  
some issues in non-isolated area, with the solution to expanding the isolated  
area to the non-isolated area by progressively expanding the isolated  
beeyards.    The genes of the isolated areas should survive over  the 
non-isolated yards.  This transition will occur much quicker if the  non-isolated bees 
are not treated ; however, that is a tough pill to take due to  the losses.  
We have been artifically keeping bees alive which means a  large % of bees 
in the non-isolated area will not survive.  There is not  any simple answer 
here but I do know bees have been living a long time, have  died back due to 
various conditions over millions of years, but some % always  survive due 
to genetic diversity.  This die back period is what we are  having a 
difficult time with since it puts a lot of people out of  business.  
 
 
 
In a message dated 10/8/2009 1:11:23 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
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I am  using feral bees, but I have little hope for that approach in  a
non-isolated area.




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