. Beekeeping in California. Bees. 36 California Agricultural Extension Service LCir- 100 If queens are shipped in provisioned cages, push in the cork or metal piece, and plug the opening thus made with soft queen-cage candy or granulated honey. The queen cage should be laid wire side down over a space between two frames near the feeder-pail or inserted between two frames as described above, with the exit hole up. This can also be done with safety when the queens are shipped in provisioned cages. Having thus installed the bees and provided sufficient pollen, honey, and sirup,. Fig. -A safe
. Beekeeping in California. Bees. 36 California Agricultural Extension Service LCir- 100 If queens are shipped in provisioned cages, push in the cork or metal piece, and plug the opening thus made with soft queen-cage candy or granulated honey. The queen cage should be laid wire side down over a space between two frames near the feeder-pail or inserted between two frames as described above, with the exit hole up. This can also be done with safety when the queens are shipped in provisioned cages. Having thus installed the bees and provided sufficient pollen, honey, and sirup,. Fig. -A safe method of adding package bees to weak colony. do not disturb them for at least 5 days. Some beekeepers remove the ship- ping cages and fill the hive with frames the day after installing the pack- ages; but then there is always some danger of the bees' balling and in- juring the queen because of the disturbance. In a modification of this method used by W. A. Finlay, Provincial Apiarist of British Columbia, the empty hive body is placed on the bottom board to hold an open can of sirup (filled with straw to prevent bees from drowning) beside the shipping cage of bees. The full comple- ment of combs can be given and the shipping cage removed later with less disturbance. The bees will take up the sirup within a day or two, but the feeder-can and cage need not be removed until it is safe to dis- turbed the hive for the purpose. Method 2: This differs from method 1 only in that the bees are all shaken out of the shipping cage into the hive at the time of installation. The queen is handled according to the directions above; then four or five frames are removed from the hive to provide space in which to shake. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Eckert, John Edward, 1895-. Berkeley, Calif. : College of A
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