> I recall adopting walk-away as a term back in the '90s to describe my
> technique of simply splitting a two-story hive in two and walking away with
> no real need to check it for three weeks.  Now, I am wondering if I read
> that term somewhere, or if I actually dreamed it up.  Does anyone know who
> used it first and where?
>

According to the "ABC and XYZ of Beekeeping" he technique has been around
for "thousands of years" but they do not use the term.

Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine

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