Michael, great information, that makes all total sense. So, any time that I do this thing I will give many extra bees, sounds like the most soundest and simplest of all. I did not realize that perhaps after 7 days many of the bees would be dead. Horrid thought, not one that I would like to at all enterain. If I do anything with a hive, like moving it a little bit, (for one reason or another), I always put a bunch of branches or something really different than what they are used to. This makes them take note of the difference in their hive right? They are actually very similar to us. If there was something different at the end of our driveway, we would probably look at it very closely to make sure that when we return we come back to the same place, lol. Great day. Cindi