I recently caught a swarm of mine from an adjoining property. I had gone unprepared for a swarm grab so I used the only thing I had. A 5 frame nuc with 2 drawn out frames. It was very full for such a small space. I left them overnight and another full day. I went back today to move them over the fence. I figured moving them 10 feet would not be hard for them to figure out, but of course they went back to the old location all confused and such. So, hastily, I managed to get 3/4 of the available bees into a full 10 frame lang hive on my side of the fence. I placed a feeder inside another deep on top of the hive to keep them interested. I did not reduced the entrance because of the large number of bees. My hope is that they don't drift back to the nuc that is in the original spot. I also placed the nuc box with 2 frames back over the fence and immediately, the returning foragers piled into it. Now I have a mess since they are split up. I can go back after dark and move the nuc to my side, but it's a sealed nuc so I can't do a newspaper combine. So my thought is to grab the nuc after dark and get those bees into my hive. Thoughts, ideas?
