Out of sheer ignorance we moved a hive about 30 ft. across the backyard to a better location. The bees didn't think so. Hundreds and hundreds stayed at the original sight, even overnight. We scooped them up and brought them to the new site. They flew back. We even vacuumed up some because so many insisted on staying. They flew back. Since there were so many, we decided that if we couldn't beat them, split the hive. So we put down a new hive. By the hundreds they were marching in the entrance even before I could put the frames in. We took two frames from the very productive first hive, still at the new location, and placed them, along with the bees on them (since they were all from the same "family" anyway), and waited. Within a few days they had built up queen cells, reared their own queen, and by fall (it was already late June), it was a thriving hive which even produced a few pounds of extra honey and is still well to this day. Because we were so new to all of this, we had not known how to go about splitting a hive and had not wanted to since the original hive had been from a swarm that we caught from our very first colony from the year before. So we learned from our mistakes and even ended up benefiting, although I would not recommend making the same mistakes we did because it could have turned out very badly too! Bev in NJ (USA)