My hive died last year so time to start over. Doing two hives this year. Here are the packages. I have a good friend in Elizabeth that wanted help learning beekeeping so they let me place hives on their property.




Here is the queen box and some of her court. There is a cork plug in one end that I removed and replaced with a mini marshmallow. The workers will eat up the marshmallow thereby releasing the queen. While in the box the queen releases pheromones to get the hive to accept her.





After placing the queen box between frames i dumped the rest into the hive near the queen. You can just see the metal strip that we use to secure the queen box in the lower portion 4 frames from the right.






After dumping the bee out I put on the top cover. It has an oval hole cut in it that the jars of food sit over. Small nail holes Iin the lid allow feeding. I set the packages in front to allow stragglers to climb in. I will reckeck in three days to assure the queens have been released.