Short Distance Move of Hive

[Berous]

I have a small apiary and I will be moving a nuc about 10 feet to a new hive location, and I have no clue how to do it. It is sitting on top of one of my other hives and every time I work the hive below, the workers returning to the nuc get all confused even though it is just a few feet away!

Any tips? New hive arrives in a few days

[Finsky]

There are different ways do to job.

1) Just take a nuc to you final place and let bees go where they find. Hive may loose half of bees. To compensate the loss take frames of emergin bees from bigger hives.

2) Take a nuc, and put their flying entrance on to the direction where they fly in.  When nuc has been  a couple of days, move it to the direction of new place.

[Berous]

I don't get option 2.

Please elaborate. Do you mean that I use an empty nuc to "catch" the confused worker bees and then move them over to the new location?

[nepenthes]

Close up the nuc at night then move them, Bee's dont fly at night.

[Finsky]

Close up the nuc at night then move them, Bee's dont fly at night.

They turn to same place. Night helps a little bit.

Option 2: To bees entrance is important. If bees see old looking hive place they find hive with sight if you move 2 feets. When nuc is in upper part, it important that it keeps same level.  You may put empty hive under the nuc.