I have heard from the guy who is trucking up the bees from Georgia. He arrives at the West Nyack Palisades Mall around midnight tonight. He will have 5 packages and 3 queens for me.
I will leave them in the truck overnight and at dawn I will install the packages.
Tonight I will split my two hives and in the morning give the two new hives a queen each.
The last queen will be installed with bees from each of the packages. I will dump the bees into the hives when I do the install, but leave a few in each box so the leftovers will serve to make an extra hive. This is an experiment and I am not sure it will work. Installing packages is iffy enough.
