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So today a hive dropped off the back of I assume a truck in front of my house. Millions of bees littered the roadside but the box appeared only slightly broken there appears to be a good amount of live bees still in the box. I know
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nothing about caring for bees but if I can save the colony that is something I really want to do any help is super much appreciated. will post pics soon. happily they allowed me to pic up their home and put it in a wagon while trampling hundreds of bees on the roadside and wheel it 200m to my yard without stinging me.
 
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Welcome aboard...and into the world of bee keeping..its not that hard to keep bees, although sometimes when all goes right things go bad..but you have a great start with free bees and a hive..set the hive up in a very full sun spot, put any frames back in the hive and the bees will straighten up the inside...then do a little research on caring for bees and they should do their own thing with minor interference from humans..also what is your location? hives have thousands of bees, so even so a bunch got trampled there should be plenty left, now lets hope the queen survived that ordeal, if not its not the end of the world..after setting up the hive in a week or so you can check for new brood to see if the queen lived...you can research all that info on this sight...
 
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For now take the box back to the front of your house.
Sit it on blocks/bricks to get it off the ground (300mm/1foot).
Leave it there a minimum of two days, and in the meantime advertise you
have it. A BK somewhere has lost some hard work there.
If nobody shows up in two days?
At dusk on day Two close the entrance with cloth and strap the body
together so it cannot come apart. Load into your open pickup and take
it to somewhere else at least 2 or 3 klms away.

You could leave it there over winter or bring it back to your home after
27 days at the new location.

Bill
what does taking the hive miles away and then bringing it back do for the bees? curious..
 
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obvious this is not the ideal or even close to ideal for the op to start bee keeping, but is was thrust on to him , so making the best of the situation and im sure we can agree the more important aspect is to do whats needed to help the bees survive..so lets agree to drop the drama and work at resolving the task at hand..what if the op moves the bees to the final location for wintering and left a box with 1 frame in the original location to catch any lost or misguided bees that will be returning, then the op can keep moving them into the hive, its not the best way, but without touring the bees miles around town its the best option avail at this time..I have moved a hive in this manor to relocate about 100ft and after a few days only a very few bees would go back to the original location...im sure some bees never made it to the new hive location, but a very small amount..sometimes whats optimum to do is just not feasible.. :)
 
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