moving hives

[Adam]

I generally move in small jumps - can do it twice a day on long flying days. Any large moves mean that I tend to swap - move one colony to an out-apiary and then bring another one back and dump it where it needs to be. I have read of moving hives in the winter as Black Comb has done and it seems to work fine but haven't done it myself.

[The Drone Ranger]

I generally move in small jumps - can do it twice a day on long flying days. Any large moves mean that I tend to swap - move one colony to an out-apiary and then bring another one back and dump it where it needs to be. I have read of moving hives in the winter as Black Comb has done and it seems to work fine but haven't done it myself.

I have done as well Adam and it works fine
You can move them in Winter because none of the winter bees will have been foragers so they just accept the new position

[Neils]

I wouldn't stick a hive in the back of van to move it over winter, but to shuffle hives around within the same apiary I think you'd be ok.

[Bumble]

You can move them in Winter because none of the winter bees will have been foragers so they just accept the new position

I think it may depend where you are and local climate. Here, well south of Stonehaven, there aren't usually many consecutive winter days when there's no activity.

[Trog]

We have the same problem - they're usually flying at least once a week in winter. However, a move of 2ft or so every other day works fine. We're currently moving a Paynes Nuc from where the swarm was originally caught to the apiary. The only thing I wouldn't do is to move them late in the day when it's cold, in case the flying bees returning to the original site get cold before they locate the new position. I've noticed one or two land and crawl around a bit before taking off again so tend to do the moves only on a good flying day.