How to Move a Beehive ANY Distance (How to Bend the 3 feet-3 Mile Rule)

When I sited my hives, I was very careful to pick the best spot I could find on my property, but as most beginners do, I made some mistakes. Not anything major, but my hives are just a little too close to a tree, so they get more shade than I like and I don't like sitting my hives on concrete cinder blocks because it leaves a lot of surface area for bugs to climb into the hive, and the hollow centers seem to be a great nest for furry mammals my wife hates... So I built a 2x4 stand to sit the hives on, and began research into the best ways to move them. In my beginning bee class we were told that a general rule was to move a hive either 2 feet or 2 miles. The idea is that if you only move the hive two feet, bees returning at the end of the work day will return to their home, not find it, and then start making larger and larger circles until they find it. With the hive 2 feet away from its original location, the returning bees would be able to find it very quickly. Have you ever moved to a new house, and after a long tiring day ended up driving on "auto-pilot" and found yourself almost at your old house? That's the idea of the 2 miles portion. Bees will take an orientation flight when they leave the hive and circle around and take note of where they live. They don't do this every time they leave, just once when they first leave, if anything significant changes as they leave the hive, and if they haven't left the hive in 72 hours or so. The theory is (as I understand it) is that when you board them up in their hive and then drive around to the new location, they know they have been moved and reorient themselves. Now the problem comes if you need to move the bees across your yard -- more than 2 feet, but significantly less than 2 miles. What I was taught was to move it incrementally, 2 feet every couple days. However, I have moved a lot, and each more was stressful, and cost me a lot more stress than I thought it would as I planned. It's the same ways with bees. When they get moved, it takes them a day or two to get back in the grove of honey production. If I moved them, got them all shook up, let them get in the grove, and then did it again, well let's just say, if I was them I would be ticked.... Website Link: https://dgwhomestead.com/how-to-move-... ebook (Kindle Unlimited): https://amzn.to/3z112Ah Print: https://amzn.to/3z10Wsp Audiobook: https://amzn.to/3z3Yxx2 This is one of the linked videos to The Basics of Beginning Beekeeping: How to Start, Manage, and Harvest Honey from Your Hive Includes Many DIY Beekeeping Tools, Book 3 of the Homestead Basics Series