> I now put the bees in around dusk or on rainy or snowy days.


Does no-one else install packages with a reduced hive entrance with grass shoved in the opening? That generally keeps them put for 24 hours or so, unless they're particularly motivated to break out. I also use screened bottom boards, so ventilation is not an issue. And the installed hives have stores to hold them.


> Boch and Morse (1974) showed that worker honey bees from dequeened swarm...


Pete, is a dequeened swarm not a different animal from a package? In the former, the retinue has chosen to move with the queen. In the latter, she is an unrelated interloper.


S


Skillman, NJ

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