Video of installing the bees

Alex picked up the bees last night around 7:00 and this morning we put them in their new homes. Everything went pretty well. The queen comes in her own little cage inside the bigger bee cage. The queen cage is then hung on a frame in the hive, which gives the workers a chance to get used to her. Normally there is a piece of candy plugging a hole in the queen cage, which the workers slowly eat through to free her. This usually takes a few days. However ours just had a cork, so we quickly improvised, removed the cork and plugged the hole with an old marshmallow. The stuff Alex is putting in the feeder is sugar water.