Let me explain the spray bottle just a bit. A few hours before going out to install the bees get a spray bottle (CLEAN) and fill it w/ a 50:50 sugar water solution. Use HOT water - or the sugar won't disolve and it will jam the spray mechanism. Spray the screen sides of the box every little while w/ the sugar water. The bees will lap up the sugar spray from the screen. Do this as often as possible for a bit - and a few more times as you go out to install the hive. The bees will be either (1) fat & lazy w/ the sugar syrup in their belly, or (2) too sticky to fight from the sugar spray. Then, take your time. Careful. They aren't usually very aggresive during this maneuver - unless you really make them mad. Rev. Thomas W. Hoyt Holy Cross Lutheran Church Warda, TX