I picked up 3 lbs. of honey bees from a bee keeper in Holland this week - he told me to choose my box from the stack pictured above. The box I chose had very active bees, plus a couple dozen more on the outside of the cage trying to get in. I figured there must have been a great bee party happening inside.
You have to gently shake the bees out of the box and into the hive - it's weird, they kind of drip out. We tried to grab out the stragglers with a paintbrush, but instead of brushing them into the hive, they clung to the brush. That is a can of sugar syrup that they ate in transit.
My bee net and looming thunderstorm in the background
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