So if anyone has a few tricks to get them in fast with hives close together please let me know. They are not all in the same yard, they are spread between 4 different ones.
Does anyone here install theirs at night?:scratch:
Even if you dont shake bees on the QC they will smell her and she wont bee lonely long.Leaving the package box in the hive for the night(s) was how I did it the last few times I got packages. I put the queen cage between two frames, shake a few bees over the queen and then put the package cage in the hive to the side of the frames.
You are right! he dropped mine off and had his trailer full. I met him in Kentucky at about 5:00am and he was heading north to get busy.Ron Householder installs 800 packages or so each year. I wish he would chime in and say how he does it but he is probally busy installing his own.