> You seem to have your 'greater than' and 'less than' reversed. It is
> written - dunno where, lots of places I think - that you can move the
> hive less than 3' or more than 3 miles without losing bees.

Yes, I wrote that email late an night and realized the error after sending
it.
But what I was asking was whether there was any difference in be able to
move a freshly hived SWARM as opposed to an established colony, as I had
heard.  And if so, how long does this phenomenon last.

Ian Watson