{"id":19438,"date":"2020-08-27T13:26:19","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T13:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=19438"},"modified":"2020-08-27T13:26:19","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T13:26:19","slug":"recently-learned-the-2-feet-2-mile-2-week-rule-via-r-beekeeping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=19438","title":{"rendered":"Recently learned the 2-feet-2-mile-2-week rule via \/r\/Beekeeping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ifttt.com\/images\/no_image_card.png\"><br \/>\n<b>Recently learned the 2-feet-2-mile-2-week rule<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>(Which some call the 3-feet-3-mile-3-week rule)<\/p>\n<p>In short, it says, &quot;you can&#39;t move your hive more than 2 feet, unless you move it more than 2 miles, for at least 2 weeks&quot;<\/p>\n<p>I find it absolutely mind-blowing that honeybees can fly <strong><em>MILES<\/em><\/strong> to find flowers, dance their way to telling the rest of the hive where the good flowers are &#8230; but get confused if the hive&#39;s more than 24 inches from where they left it.<\/p>\n<p>Does the conversation between the bees go like this?<\/p>\n<p>Betty: &quot;I dunno, Sarah &#8230; it <em>looks<\/em> like our hive &#8230; but the hive was <strong><em>HERE<\/em><\/strong> &#8211; not 25 inches north.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Sarah: &quot;You&#39;re right, Betty &#8211; that <em>can&#39;t<\/em> be our hive. Guess it&#39;s gone. Oh well. Let&#39;s just sit down and die.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Submitted August 27, 2020 at 08:58AM<br \/>\nvia reddit https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Beekeeping\/comments\/ihkk77\/recently_learned_the_2feet2mile2week_rule\/?utm_source=ifttt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently learned the 2-feet-2-mile-2-week rule (Which some call the 3-feet-3-mile-3-week rule) In short, it says, &quot;you can&#39;t move your hive more than 2 feet, unless you move it more than 2 miles, for at least 2 weeks&quot; I find it absolutely mind-blowing that honeybees can fly MILES to find flowers, dance their way to telling &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=19438\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Recently learned the 2-feet-2-mile-2-week rule via \/r\/Beekeeping<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[972],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-19438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blih","tag-reddit"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19439,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19438\/revisions\/19439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19438"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=19438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}