> how do the bees handle being moved? don't they lose the bearings? only thing you really have to worry about is temperature, keep the hives between 32-35 degrees when being transported and they're happy, and yeah you'll lose some bees when you pack up shop and move on (but if you do it at night most will be in the hive), if needs be they can navigate about 10kms back to a hive, but i'll also setup a natural hive whenever i leave a spot completely so they can keep the party going without me and hopefully next season i don't have to come back, we're also selecting and breeding queens constantly as we go and they'll lay 2-3k eggs a day, so repopulating isn't a massive issue. bees really don't need much other than corporations and farmers to not be gigantic faggots crop dusting everything.
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