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>Waiting another hour or so gives enough time for scouts to return from other sites, and then the entire cluster heads off together to this new site What happe

• almindor 7y ago
  This happens regularly, the bee cluster doesn't wait for late comers. There are some scouts that keep going there and back but there are also scouts that do that with the "Correct" destination, so they "lead" the stray ones to their new home eventually. In the end most bees end up where they're supposed to. It's much worse when a beekeeper takes the swarm tho. Speaking from experience, you can see "lost" scouts going to and from the temporary cluster from their destinations for days after you moved the cluster into a new hive. The reason is because there's noone going from cluster to new hive since no scout found that destination. It's a bit heartbreaking. I collected the "leftover" mini-clusters 4 times in a row coz I felt responsible...