>
> >Believe me, I have done that. After installing a yard of 100 packages, I
> spent the next two months trying to equalize them, because they drifted.
>

And the results were????  If it were simply a location issue, it seems that
you could have equalize them quickly by swapping positions.

When you moved a bee-heavy end colony to the center, did it immediately
lose bees?

Jerry has posted about his entrance counter data, which strongly indicated
that odor was a major factor for those colonies that accumulated drifting
bees.


-- 
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com

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