Moving a Hive

It would seem that moving a hive should be an easy task. However moving a hive just a few feet can completely disorient all the foraging worker bees. So if we are to move a hive the rule is that you can move a hive up to 2 feet. Anything over that distance then you must move then 2 miles away. Moving them over 2 miles away triggers them to reorient to their hive and not get lost.

In this example I moved a hive about 1 foot and turn the hive 90 degrees from the original orientation. Before I moved the hive, there was normal entrance activity with much fewer bees in the air. After I moved the hive there are hundreds of bees in the air trying to find the new entrance location to the hive. They will soon learn the new entrance location.