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How to find a wild hive:
I haven't tried this myself, but I am told this is the method used to find
bee trees in the distant past.
From your frames that are being cleaned (or whatever the bees are feeding
on), collect a dozen or so live bees, and put them in a box. Watch the
direction bees go when they leave the feeding area, then set out in that
direction following a bee. When you lose sight of your first bee, release
one from your box and follow her. Repeat the process until you either find
the colony or run out of bees in your box.
Again, the caveat: I haven't tried this. You might want to try this from
about 1/2 mile away from known bee colonies (and prove it works) before you
get led into a poison ivy and bramble patch by the wild bees.
W. G. Miller
Gaithersburg, MD
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