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picked up package today bees looked good only about 12 dead ones opened it up pulled queen cage and queen was dead called supplier and he said put bees in hive and intact cage with dead queen in hive as she will still smell like a queen and they will cluster around dead queen until I get replacement queen on fri afternoon so I did put hive top feeder with 1:1 syrup and closed hive they seemed good flying and fanning the entrance this seemed like logical solution for the time being I'm hoping they will be good and I left corks in place so they could not access the candy plug what are your thoughts thanks