>I have a lot of bees that i got this past april without a queen in a hive.
You think they have been queenlees since April? Since when?
>i put a new queen in a cage, hung from a wire 2-3 weeks ago....i checked on her progress yesterday, the bees were nasty, flew all over my suit, one got inside my hood, and stung me on my forehead. that wasn't to bad. the queen was no where to be found, and there weren't any eggs.
Have you seen eggs before? Is there any open brood? Is there any worker brood?
>i am going to order another queen next week. what can i do different? i am getting desperate.
Assuming that they are indeed queenless and that they have been queenless for some time, I would expect to see multiple eggs from a laying worker by now.
I would be tempted to pull a couple of frames of bees and put them in a nuc overnight and then introduce the queen to the nuc. A push in cage seems to be about the most foolproof. You can make one from #8 hardware cloth or buy a plastic one from Betterbee. You can put the queen in the push in cage and she can be fed through the cage by the workers and she can lay in the combs. When she's laying and they are feeding her, you can pull the cage. If you put the nuc on a double screen board over the main hive for a couple of days so they can get used to each other's smell and then do a newspaper combine they will be most likely to accept the new queen.
I'm assuming, in all of this, that this is your only hive. Do you have more hives?