Hiving the bees

This time we tried something a little different. Previously, we pulled a few frames and dumped them in. As seen here, here, and here.

However our local PSBA Capt sent sound an interesting approach that we decided to try. It's the #3 option on this post.

Basically, you pull out and attach the queen cage as normal. But instead of the big bee dump, you simply place the package inside the hive, and leave a few frames out. A few days later, you pull out the empty, and replace the frames.

Will report back on how this goes!

So we all suited up and headed to the hive.

And put the bees in. It was incredibly way and low stress to just drop in the package rather than dump.