posted 6 years ago
I concur with Trace and Mike, no worries mate, a healthy hive can have a million workers, and bees will come to any field as long as there is pollen and nectar to be had.
Case in point, when I lived in New York I knew where a natural hive was and where a flower field (around 100 acres) was, when the flowers started blooming in that field the bees were there and it took them a week to get through all those flowers.
When they finished that field they moved to a commercial orchard that was only 400 yards from the edge of the flower field, but the orchard didn't start blooming until the bees were just finishing up with the flowers so the bees moved from the flowers to the apples without a hitch.
Redhawk