In message <[log in to unmask]>, Jeremy Rose 
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>Does anyone here have apiaries directly beneath high voltage 
>transmission lines?  If so have you ever noticed problems with the 
>hives in such locations?

This is an old chestnut that comes up again and again and I am sure 
there are answers in the archives.

One of my best and most consistent yards of hives is located right 
inside the legs of a huge pylon, so big we can get the truck in and 
still accommodate over 40 hives. Maybe not the highest voltage at 
330,000V but NEVER have we seen any ill effects from them being there. 
It is a location we use for wintering and early spring/summer 
production.

A couple of miles away, under the same power lines and at the point of 
maximum sag we have a location we use seasonally according to crop 
distribution, and again, zero problems.

Over a season we use nearly 200 temporary or fixed yards and thus have 
had many many other locations in the vicinity of power lines and even 
right next door to a booster station, with hives probably no more than 
four or five yards from big transformers. Again no effect.

Returns to lurk mode........................

-- 
Murray McGregor

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