When I install packages I, too, make sure the bees and queen are
     together in the package for 2 or 3 days before hiving.  Then I simply
     dump in the bees (after removing about 3 frames to leave space) and
     release the queen into the clump of bees.  I have not lost a queen in
     13 years and up here I install every spring.
 
     Anyone else release queens directly?  Anyone have problems doing it?
 
     Tom Elliott
     Eagle River, Alaska