I found this on t'internet today:
"I'm using CO2 to two frame nuck forage force bees stay in nuck. Carbon dioxide knocks out the bees. Fainting bees lose their location memory. They cannot return to their old hive. Don't need to put nucks 3 miles away. I hate transport nucks".
CO2 is used during artificial insemination of queens but I can't recall seeing it being used as described. Seems like an interesting idea to stop made up nucs losing their bees back to the original hive.
"I'm using CO2 to two frame nuck forage force bees stay in nuck. Carbon dioxide knocks out the bees. Fainting bees lose their location memory. They cannot return to their old hive. Don't need to put nucks 3 miles away. I hate transport nucks".
CO2 is used during artificial insemination of queens but I can't recall seeing it being used as described. Seems like an interesting idea to stop made up nucs losing their bees back to the original hive.
May your bees read the same books as you do.