How do you find a bee hive and transport it safly to your house without disterbing the bees?

in this time of bee parasites and heavy colony lose i find myself feeling horrible for the critters i have a massive flower garden and have seen few bees this year and some sick dieing ,i am curious how i would go about luring the bees closer to the flowers in the yard so they could get more done before they parish,any help woudl be greatly appriciated,without bees some flowers smell like rotting meat to attract the flys that are left to polinate them,i dont know about you folks i'm not too fond of smelling rotting meat.How do you find a bee hive and transport it safly to your house without disterbing the bees?
First off, you鈥檙e not going to do this yourself, it鈥檚 a job for professionals.


Secondly you will not be doing the bees a favour. In order to move the hive you will need to smash it to pieces. It will take months or years to regain its previous vigour. Added to that moving the hive to a suburban location where flowers are seasonal exotics simply makes it harder for the bees to locate flowers in early spring and late autumn, when they really need the nectar. Then you have the problem that suburban flowers are often treated with pesticides and represent a serious risk to bees. YOUR flowers might be OK, but can you guarantee you neighbour never sprays for aphis or whitefly?





Thirdly honey bees are an exotic pest introduced to North America by Europeans. If the exotic honey bee population declines native bee and butterfly species just might recover. The world has no shortage of honey bees, but several nectar feeding native insect species are threatened. From an ecological POV you are doing more damage saving the bees.





If you still insist on trying this you can locate the hive by the old capture and release method. Leave out some food for the bees (honey is good) and capture a bee just as it finishes feeding. Glue a small piece of red streamer to its back, that will allow you to follow it. If you lose sight of it simply move the food source to where you last saw it and repeat with another bee. Eventually you will track them back to their hive. This method has been used for tens of thousands of years to find bee hives.





Once you find the hive be prepared to pay someone to cut down the tree, and pay someone else to relocate the hive for you.





Me, I鈥檇 just spend 100 bucks or so and buy a young hive. It would be cheaper and the bees would be healthier.How do you find a bee hive and transport it safly to your house without disterbing the bees?
Very carefully.





P.S. If the bees wanted to be by your flowers, why didn't they build their hive there? Stop playing God. Leave their home alone, and don't disturb their delicate ecosystem. You'd probably end up killing more than you save.
wow tough one. you'd probably need one of those suits. or I'll bet there are professional bee handlers out there... I'm not kidding. now a days there are professionals for everything.
A wild hive should be left alone. It would be nigh on impossible to move the hive without breaking it as they are usually built into other structures (like trees). In moving them, you would probably agitate them (increasing the odds of them swarming, not pleasant), force them to build a new nest (draining their resources further) and cause problems for other species in the area. Bees often have very precise flight plans (believe it or not) as they know where the flowers are and disturbing them will force them to have to start again. Short answer, leave it alone as the bees are probably happy where they are.