I am a first year beekeeper and I have been capturing a lot of swarms on my property. I try to transfer them from the trap to a hive box within hours of the swarm settling in so they don't build comb in the flower pot style traps. Since I am putting them in a box on the same 10 acre property, some of the bees inevitably go back to the original trap location. When this happens I leave the trap down and hope the bees will go away after a while. The last couple of swarms I trapped have had small patches of bees hanging out in the trap location for two weeks now. If I put the trap back up will these bees defend it or welcome scouts from another swarm?
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