Moving Hives

Gary our friend and mentor is in the process of moving the location of his apiary, so has brought his hives to us for 3 days. You nay ask why?

The reason is ;- you can move a hive 3 foot or 3 miles

So if you need to move the hives 1 mile away like he does, you first have to move them 3 miles away from their original home, let them settle and find there new bearings, and then you can move them to their new site.

This is all well and good but we ended up with another 10 hives for 3 days, not normally an issue!

but there is one hive that has simply gone berserk!! as soon as you go within 30 yards of them they are buzzing around your head warning you off. We have both been stung by them over the last couple of days so we cant wait for this hive to leave.

If that was my hive, I would just throw the towel in now, they are far to vicious and it just wouldn't be the pleasure to keep bees that it is.

Gary is now going to re queen this hive with a gentler strain, thank goodness.