--- On Thu, 5/17/12, Mike S <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Then nearest land to that island is about 0.4
> mile and extends beyond that in most directions. If I were
> to set up a queen mating yard in the middle of the island
> with four colonies of drone producers at the four points of
> the compass on the edge of the island, would that more or
> less contain my bees and exclude drones from areas other
> than the island?
reply;
No it would not contain your bees and exclude drones from other areas, and this has been seen and documented off Gulf Port States of USA and Great lakes, and off coast of S. America and Africa also.........for you have to be further then drones and queens can fly in mating, plus milage expended in swarming and flying and this is many miles more so then you thinking.
Dee A. Lusby
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