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Originally Posted by RedHeadGal
did you say why you moved the hive? I don't remeber, and I don't see it in the previous entries here.
no honey yesterday? I made honey lime chicken enchiladas for dinner yesterday, so I could have used some of your honey!
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I moved the hive because it was formerly next to my air con unit, and we needed the unit serviced. In general, when you move a hive, it is best to move it a far distance. Otherwise the bees will get confused and return to the former location of the hive. So if I had moved it into my backyard, I would have bees returning to the former location. But since I moved it many miles away, the bees have to completely reorient and they return to the hive as they should.
I probably won't be harvesting honey in the fall. They need to store enough honey to survive the winter. They eat the honey to generate enough warmth in their cluster to survive, and then get ramped up in population before the spring nectar flow. If you are not careful, your bees will starve to death.