>1. Reduce the hive entrance and fill it with some green grass. Not too
>tight, it will dry out a bit and the bees will remove it in a few hours.
> This tends to create a small space for the new bees to guard and also
>create difficulty for bees to leave or robber bees to enter.
 
But equally as important is to confuse the field bees, to prevent them
zinging off without noting where they live. We do this every time we make a
nuc or move a hive, even over a few feet. Try it, it works.
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