Just got 3, 3lb packages of bees today, I will let the provider remain nameless at this point to see if they rectify the situation. 90-95% of the bees were dead on arrival as well as 1 of the 3 queens. They came in plastic cages with no syrup can. It appeared that the bees had been heavily saturated with syrup water prior to shipping. The hole package was a gooey ball of basically dead bees.
I dumped one package of bees in a hive with a live queen. There is a huge pile of dead bees in the middle of the hive. Do I try and remove some of the dead bees?? I opened the package with the dead queen and propped it up next to the entrance in hopes that the few remaining live bees would migrate into the hive and join the others. Any other suggestions??? I left the one package in my garage which appears to yet have a live queen as there was a baseball size group of bees clustered around the queen cage.
The UPS driver made the comment that I was the only one he delivered today that sounded like they had any live bees in them!!
I dumped one package of bees in a hive with a live queen. There is a huge pile of dead bees in the middle of the hive. Do I try and remove some of the dead bees?? I opened the package with the dead queen and propped it up next to the entrance in hopes that the few remaining live bees would migrate into the hive and join the others. Any other suggestions??? I left the one package in my garage which appears to yet have a live queen as there was a baseball size group of bees clustered around the queen cage.
The UPS driver made the comment that I was the only one he delivered today that sounded like they had any live bees in them!!