Bill,

I will give you this piece of bee reaction that my wife has observed. My
colonies in the yard get really agitated when the emergency vehicles go
by with there sirens blasting away. I also looked at this really good
spot to possibly put a colony or 2 , but thought against it because it
was about 30' from an active railroad line. My concern was how the
rumbling, shaking, and noise would affect them. I felt they would get
agitated too easily and stay that way. To try it out, thump on your hive
the same way the thumping from the choper blades would be doing to your
hives from the compressed shoch wave hitting them. Logic says that they
may get agitated and stay nasty. This is only a hypothesis based on
insufficient data. I hope that this helps you in some way.

Greg

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