>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 happens if a bee is late coming back and everyone is gone?
What happens if a bee is late coming back and everyone is gone?
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...