Don't be Fluttershy · 10:15pm Oct 28th, 2017
This is a public service announcement on the subject of bees.
In the first part of today's episode, Fluttershy moves the flash bees' hive a distance of what looked like 10 metres.
Do not do this. You will kill the hive.
Bees' navigation is very precise, but not very flexible. They always return to where they remember the hive being. If you move a beehive a very short distance - up to 3 feet / 1 metre - they can find the hive and will adjust. Any more that that though, and they'll get lost.
You can also move a beehive a much longer distance - at least 3 miles / 5 kilometres - because that's far enough that their new foraging area won't overlap with the old one. When moving a beehive a long distance, always do it after dark and block up the entrance. Open it as soon as the hive is set up in the new location.
If you need to move it more than 3 feet, then what you have to do is move it at least 3 miles away, wait a week, then move them back.
And before anybody asks, I've never kept bees in my life, but I ended up researching the subject for a story I'm writing. So don't necessarily trust me - you should do your own research.
1) Move the hive 3 miles away.
2) Move it back, but 10 meters from original place.
3) Profit!))
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As long as you wait a week between steps 1 and 2, yes.
Of course, these are electric bees. Perhaps they navigate by magnetism.