Subject: Re: Moving bee hives

From: [email-masked] (John E. Fox)
Date: 8 Jun 1994 13:16:39 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (John Chamberlain) says:
>
>I am a beginning beekeeper who has a chance to buy three working hives.
>They are located about thirty miles from my place.  I am looking for info 
>about moving them, such as time of day, preparing the hive, etc.
>
>Thanks
>John
>
>--
>John Chamberlain   [email-masked]   
>Edmonton Remote Systems   Serving Edmonton/Northern Alberta since 1982

Move them in the evening when they are all back in the hive. Stop up the entrance
with some cloth and they should be OK. The hives may be very heavy it may take two
people to move them. Bees will cope with either a move of under a yard or over a mile. If
you are moving them less than a mile away, they may fly back to their old site. 
Make sure the hive are secure in the car. It is very interesting to drive with a steadily
increasing number of noisy passengers in the car. When you get to your new site
just open up the entrance. They will start working next day as if nothing had happened.