Actually, once the foliage is dead is pretty much the best time to transplant bulbs. You can even leave the bulbs unplanted until fall, when you normally plant newly-purchased bulbs, as long as you keep them cool and dry.
If you can wait till the daffodil foliage dies, you'll be more likely to get blossoms next year. But you don't have to leave them where they are in order to do that. You can dig them up and "heel" them in (basically just dig a shallow trench in a sunny, out of the way place, lay the bulbs in it with the foliage hanging over the side of the trench, then cover the bulbs but not the foliage with soil) until the foliage dies, then store them as above until you're ready to plant them.
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If you can wait till the daffodil foliage dies, you'll be more likely to get blossoms next year. But you don't have to leave them where they are in order to do that. You can dig them up and "heel" them in (basically just dig a shallow trench in a sunny, out of the way place, lay the bulbs in it with the foliage hanging over the side of the trench, then cover the bulbs but not the foliage with soil) until the foliage dies, then store them as above until you're ready to plant them.
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