CliffordK
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For a while I've wanted to start a bee hive.
I'd like to get a local capture hive, rather than moving bees around the country... hopefully avoiding importing diseases into the area that I wouldn't already have, and would rather have a generally wild bee than a domestic bee.
Anyway, Mom has a bee's nest in an oak tree right behind her house.
I don't want to damage the tree, or hurt her hive, but if I built a hive, is there any way to force some of the bees to take up habitation in my hive, then eventually split it?
I'd like to get a local capture hive, rather than moving bees around the country... hopefully avoiding importing diseases into the area that I wouldn't already have, and would rather have a generally wild bee than a domestic bee.
Anyway, Mom has a bee's nest in an oak tree right behind her house.
I don't want to damage the tree, or hurt her hive, but if I built a hive, is there any way to force some of the bees to take up habitation in my hive, then eventually split it?