>If you took a hive of the more prolific bees and moved it to a new
location within a couple hundred yards, would the nurse bees and house bees
that remained with the hive be sufficient to carry through the winter

Mike, the field bees all abandon the hive in fall anyway.  Heather
Mattila's research detailed the fall turnover of population.
--
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com

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