Hi
Got my packages on saturday and I ordered carnolinas but the dealer only recived Italians so he swapped out the queens cages with carnolians. This afternoon I went out to check on them and one of the packages it appears the workers were sealing the cork hole of the queen cage closed. Is this something to worry about? Do they not like her? I took the cork out and plugged it with marsh mellow now
Will they kill her? On Saturday I had opened the packages took 4 frames out and just set the packages in the hives then took the queens marked them, put back in queen cages with cork then set them on top of package, so then they glued queen cage to package and cork closed
Thanks
Got my packages on saturday and I ordered carnolinas but the dealer only recived Italians so he swapped out the queens cages with carnolians. This afternoon I went out to check on them and one of the packages it appears the workers were sealing the cork hole of the queen cage closed. Is this something to worry about? Do they not like her? I took the cork out and plugged it with marsh mellow now
Will they kill her? On Saturday I had opened the packages took 4 frames out and just set the packages in the hives then took the queens marked them, put back in queen cages with cork then set them on top of package, so then they glued queen cage to package and cork closed
Thanks