Installing a Package of Bees
Have you ever seen how a package of bees is installed into a hive ? The feeder can is pulled out and the screened box is shaken madly til the bees eventually come out of the 4 inch hole. It is madness. Here Corwin shows how to simply take off the screen on one side of the package and get the bees in with a shake. With a top bar, hanging the queen cage in between the bars at the top of the hive pretty much insures you will get cross comb. So in this video we show how to walk the queen into the hive. Note: the bees and the queen must have been together in the package for a couple of days, so the bees will accept her.