Empty hives are swarm magnets! Leave one or two in your apiary.
Channel: Phil Chandler: Barefoot Beekeeper
Date: 2020-05-12

Bees when they are swarming and looking for a new home are often attracted to places that bees have lived before - especially empty hives. This video shows the second occasion in one day when a swarm left one hive and entered an empty polynuc in the same apiary. That saved me some work and also saved a couple of good queens.


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