My inventive streak comes to the fore once in a while.  How about
connecting a vacuum hose to the bung hole, and "drawing" the bees into a box
of some sort?  From box to hive might work for you.  Or maybe go directly
from barrel to hive.

  "Necessity is the mother of invention"

  EDW

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