Dumping Bees into Hive Video

One of the coolest parts is watching the bees get dumped into the hive. I get lots of questions and it is really quite simple. Since the bees do not have a home they do not want to sting, they just want a home. The queen is in a separate cage that had a cork in the end. We exchange the cork for a marshmallow and place the cage in the hive. In about an hour the bees will eat through the marshmallow and free the queen. Since the hive is closed by then she will not escape. The tin can contains the sugar water that came with the bees. The spray bottle is also sugar water, once it on the wings it harder to fly.