> I can understand why bees might be loathe to work up into a box of brand new foundation.

Maybe it smells too new. One way to get bees to go up into boxes is
the leave the lids off for a while.  Of course you have to do that for
the whole yard and/or consider the risk of robbing.  I assume that
robbing would not be an issue in the circumstances you describe,
anyhow.

> The question that I was really curious about is whether others who move to alfalfa see a lag time before the bees start to work it.

I've never noticed that, but alfalfa is everywhere I go.

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