Too bad some things went awry. First, when the bee supplier called to say they were behind on shipping, I said "fine," not knowing they already had the bees packed, but they just sat there in the Georgia warehouse. When the bees arrived, their was no more food, the bees were badly stressed, and I am not sure one of the queens survived.
So we rushed the hives out to the yard and installed the bees. Same as last year's installation of a new colony...first move the queen's chamber to the new hive, then shake the livin daylights out of the bees in the inverted shipping box. Oddly, I still did not get stung this year even though I shook and banged on their shipping box.
