You can move bumblebee colonies.  Normally, they nest in the ground in  an 
old mouse hole, sometimes in a wood pile.  We've bought bumblebees (they  
come commercially in a cardboard box), buried the unit in a berm, bees did 
fine  with the re-location.
 
We always kept them closed in until night, then opened the 'door' so that  
the first bees could fly at dawn.  That way, they follow their normal  
behavioral patterns, leave to forage, find out that things have changed, look  
around to get their orientation.  
 
Jerry

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