5/27/2011 New Package Installation. The bees had been sitting in my garage for two days and we had the assembled hives for over a month. Initially, we were thinking about installing the bees in the backyard of our suburban home near Ashland, VA... But thought better of it. The decision to install the bees on part of my Mom's property turned out to be the right decision this go around.
At any rate, the installation was observed by my Dad and Mom as well as uncle Bill "uncold" and aunt Susan. It went reasonably well and the bees were well behaved. Probably very ready to get out of that box!
I posted a video of the event on youtube:
Also, later that weekend, I took some higher quality close up video of the bees:
Next time I open the hive, I'll need to check that the queen has been released.
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