I caught one of my hives that swarmed and put it in two mediums and left it there for 2 weeks. I then went to move it into the bee yard with the other hives (about a @100 feet move).
I closed up the hive in question Saturday evening and moved it to the bee yard. I left it with a screen top and screen over the entrance, closing them in for 36 hours. Monday (this) morning I removed the screens and placed some branch/foliage near to the entrance to create a new obstacle for them.
I left them alone for @two hours and when I went to check on them they seem pretty active but more to the point there are @100+ bees flying in circles in the old location.
Should I simply accept that some will return to the old location and forget them and hope they find the new location or maybe place a box there for them to go into and then move them back to the relocated hive?
More to the point, is there something I did wrong that is causing some of them to drift back to the old location?? Is this just something that happens?
Thanks,
I closed up the hive in question Saturday evening and moved it to the bee yard. I left it with a screen top and screen over the entrance, closing them in for 36 hours. Monday (this) morning I removed the screens and placed some branch/foliage near to the entrance to create a new obstacle for them.
I left them alone for @two hours and when I went to check on them they seem pretty active but more to the point there are @100+ bees flying in circles in the old location.
Should I simply accept that some will return to the old location and forget them and hope they find the new location or maybe place a box there for them to go into and then move them back to the relocated hive?
More to the point, is there something I did wrong that is causing some of them to drift back to the old location?? Is this just something that happens?
Thanks,