Planning for Package hive stack for the rest of year

[Dawn_SD]

Hello and welcome to the Flow forum!

@jjarrett96

Did you receive instructions on getting them out of the package and into the brood box?

If you you use the search tool at the upper right of this page (magnifying glass icon), you will find lots of posts, including this one:

Mann Lake Bee Packages - Get ready for the Bee Bus shipping container!

Part One - Ordering and Shipping We lost a hive last year to Varroa (started treatment a couple of weeks too late) and then we lost a second hive in February to incredible storms with horizontal rain and 70mph winds. It was too late to order a nucleus locally, so we were delighted to read that Mann Lake is starting to supply shipped packages of bees. Even better, the packages are bred by Olivarez Honey Bees. We have bought their queens in the past, and they are unfailingly high quality and gent…

Flow has also made a video of how to install a package, with the help of Michael Bush (well known beekeeper). I am sure that a search will turn up a link to that too.