I went out this morning to check on the cluster and the tree was empty of bees. Unfortunately, they were not in the bait box either. Let us hope they survive in their new home.
I wrote to Professor Tom Seeley regarding my theory and he replied: I don’t have a good answer to your question. I don’t think that the
bees rejected your home because they hadn’t spent enough time in a
cluster, but that would seem to explain what you have experienced. It
is certainly a testable hypothesis!
I would set up some experiments to test it, if I had the space, supplies and undergraduate students!
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