Hi Peter:

I believe you can avoid the problem of bees leaving the splits and going 
back to the old queen by leaving the splits at the old location and moving 
the old bees to the new one. None of the bees with the splits will leave and 
any old foragers that come back will add strength to the splits.

                                    Best regards

                                    Donald Aitken 

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