How do honey farmers move hives without losing all the bees?

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How do honey farmers move hives without losing all the bees?

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Answer 1

It’s a lot simpler than it sounds,

Bees want to be in the hive at night.

So…you wait til dusk. Then you walk over and literally shut the hive so that he bees cannot get out.

Then you move the hive.

The few individuals who are not in the hive when you move it, those are expendable.