Install the package and wait for the queen to release as per normal. If there is the slightest chance that the queenless colony has laying workers, shake it out ten feet in front of the installed package and let the shaken bees beg their way in hopefully leaving the laying workers in the grass. If you need the drawn comb for the package. Just shake out the bees and then install the package.
Introducing a package to an established hive
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I have one hive that is now queenless and will be receiving a package later in the week which will of course include a caged queen.
The queen in the package will be the fastest way to obtain a queen for my queenless hive, but at that point I would have a package of queenless bees.
Assuming I will use the package queen for my queenless hive, my options seem to be.
1. Place the package bees in the hive that will be receiving the new queen by using the newspaper method on that have with the package bees going into a hive body or super on top of that hive.
2. Place the package bees in another hive which I determine to be weak, but healthy using the newspaper method with a super of hive body on top of that existing hive.
The queen in the package will be the fastest way to obtain a queen for my queenless hive, but at that point I would have a package of queenless bees.
Assuming I will use the package queen for my queenless hive, my options seem to be.
1. Place the package bees in the hive that will be receiving the new queen by using the newspaper method on that have with the package bees going into a hive body or super on top of that hive.
2. Place the package bees in another hive which I determine to be weak, but healthy using the newspaper method with a super of hive body on top of that existing hive.
