Talk about being busy as a bee lol,..gosh you have a lot going along down on the farm plus watching grandchildren three days a week.
By coincidence we are on about bees and my friends in Ohio are in the process of introducing new queens.
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Anyway, I have had bees for a long time, I got my three packages installed yesterday and today I popped their corks out of the queen cage and stuffed the holes with marshmallows, so they can release her within a few days, but not destroy her because they don't readily accept a new queen. They need to get used to her for about a week before they "allow" her to be their queen. So, if they kill her before she lays even one egg I will be out about 100.00 for the bees. They need a queen in there or they will all leave or die off trying to keep the "hive" in order, but not having any success at that. and a queenless hive is nasty! The bees are aggressive and mean.
