Hi there. I had to replace the queen in my 3# package less than a week after installing as the bees killed the original queen. I installed a new queen last Thursday. Poked a hole in the candy end, hung the cage between bars 5 & 6 with candy end up. Today when I checked on her, there was not one bee on her cage, she was still in it...the 4 attendants appeared to be dead. I took her down, sprayed the cage with 1:1 sugar water mixed with a little HbH and placed it on the floor of the hive under the cluster of bees. Not sure what else to do at this point.
1)try another direct release in a day or so
2) order yet another queen (this time remove all the attendants before putting in the hive)
I've checked all the comb...no eggs, no larvae. I'm afraid if I don't get a laying queen in there soon there were be no bees alive in a few weeks.
Thoughts?