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Date: | Tue, 27 Apr 1993 18:32:10 +0000 |
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Hello !
I am a beekeeper in Belgium, french speaking ! My english is very
poor ... excuse me ! I often have to resolve the problem of moving hives in
my apiaries. It was always a bad thing to do even moving at night, even for
50 cm, even with branches. A lot of bees flies exactly as the hive place
don't have change ... usually they go over and make a detour. I think that
when a bee makes his first orientation fly, it creates his own flying way to
come back to hive place. If you change this place, even a little, the bee
don't change its flying way but after its mistake. I think that change the
entrance orientation is more efficient to avoid bees lost. If you do it,
you will see the bees coming out to hesitate before .. to make a new
orientation fly. Maybe, their compass was out of order ?
Practically, the best way is to do as Philip : to move hive for a few
(3-4) km. After 10-15 days in summer (a more long time in winter) you could
put it at its new place.
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