a few weeks it will have all settled down. Just what I was looking for. I'm about to try this and was wondering about the number and density of branches. Thanks. andy pearce wrote: I have done the same... I had to move a hive 250 meters so waited til dusk, shut them in an bunged the hive in a wheel barrow and wheeled it to its new location. I opened them as soon as I got them to their new location, in case they were up before me and I placed a branch of Norway Spruce, the densest branch I had to hand, over the entrance so they almost had to climb through it to get flying the next day. I placed a small empty box at the old location and got twenty bees which I popped into the hive the next night, next day there were no bees at the old location. I got the tip from Michael Bush's book, the info is also on his website for free, he says the branch makes the bees re-orientate when they exit the hive and see a big difference. I watched them and they do. A Hi... it was just one branch of Norway Spruce which was flat and very dense at its needle end. This was with a National treated as a Warre on a low stand and I put the dense needle end of the branch over the entrance so that the bees would encounter it when they