"I'm curious that I haven't yet seen any formal testing of the
commonly-recommended placement of something over the entrance of a moved
hive in order to initiate reorientation of the departing foragers--has
anyone seen any such test?"
I have a written proposal out for that test at the moment. Unfortunately we have not been able to procure top rate bee counters as of yet, capable of determining how many bees are actually lost during moves.
Only way I know to establish a good baseline.
Charles
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