Milt Lathan wrote:
> ...I need to move the two
> hives there across the lot.  The site is in Carnation, WA about an
> hour from my homebase, south of Seattle, so I would prefer to make
> this a onetime move.

Some might try to tell you that bees will always return to the old spot
and die there -- unless moved a long way off -- but that is an old wives
tale.  There is, naturally, some truth to it, but it fails the standard
test for truth in a true/false test.

Numerous writers have taken much time and effort and presented lots of
ideas here on BEE-L regarding this very topic, so I'll leave it to you
to check the archives (see the tag line).  It's a lot less work than
moving the hives all over the country and back.

allen
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