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> I'm familiar with the huge drifting issue when installing packages during flight weather, but question any advantage to settling longer than overnight.
The problems of drifting are the same with bringing bees out of cellars, as when installing package bees, as evidenced by this from 100 years ago (these bees have been "settling" for 6 months):
> I see by the bee papers that others have much trouble with bees mixing when setting out, so that a part of the hives have colonies strong beyond measure, and other hives correspondingly weak. In the home apiary almost any plan can be adopted; but when we go to an out-apiary a plan must be used that will allow us to set out the bees on that day and at that time without danger from mixing so that a part become too strong and a part too weak.
> Precautions, which will reduce the tendency of the bees to drift into the wrong hives when taking their first flight, are opening the door and windows, if there are any, of the cellar during the night previous to setting the bees out, and contract ing the entrances at the time of setting out to prevent the bees rushing out too fast in their first flight. It the bees have wintered well they are not as much inclined to drift as bees that have wintered poorly. Some prefer to set the bees out on a day too cold for immediate flight so they will fly with less excitement on the first warm day, thus reducing the tendency to drift.
DOOLITTLE, G. M. Management of Out-Apiaries. 1913; revised 1922.
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