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One of the seasons of Outback Truckers show some guys transporting live hives around to various locations for a season. They have to be fast so the hives don't

• Wingman4l7 9y ago
  Probably misremembering, or it was simple TV hyperbole; it's fairly easy to seal up a hive for transportation so that the bees cannot get out. Hives do "swarm" though -- basically, vacating their box en masse -- so it's possible that they were referring to avoiding this behavior, which could maybe be induced by having a hive box sealed up for too long.
  • dawnerd 9y ago
    Ah yes it was swarming. I'm sure the show played it up a bit too.
  • fish_fan 9y ago
    Iirc they are also calmed by moving, so it's not quite as scary as it sounds.