Choosing sites, comparing them, and knowing when to move.
Moving a hive across a garden is harder than moving it across a county, because bees remember where home is to the metre. Why that happens, the three feet or three miles rule, how to move a hive a short way or to a new apiary, and how to close it up and carry it without losing bees.
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A good site makes an average beekeeper look good, and a bad one defeats a good beekeeper. What bees need from a site, what you need from it, how to keep neighbours on side, the rules that may apply, how many hives a site can hold, and how to tell after a season whether the site was right.
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Most beekeepers can tell you which apiary is their best. Very few can say by how much, or why. The answer decides where hives go next spring, and it only exists if a season of records is tied to the site.
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