The video of us installing our 1st bee package

[Devbee]

Howdy friends!

Well, my wife and I installed our first package yesterday.  Here's our video of it: http://www.devinrose.heroicvirtuecreations.com/blog/2007/04/07/installing-our-bees/

It went pretty well, but I made some dumb mistakes, including relying on double-sided wall tape to hold the queen cage.  The other mistake was thinking the bees that didn't get shaken out of the package would crawl into the hive by leaving the package right by the entrance, but instead, it was too cold, so they made a few small (20 bee) clusters in the package itself, which was a death sentence I realized, so I opened the top supers covering the feeder pail up later on in the day and dumped the rest of the bees into the hive. 

Today we saw bees flying around!  It looks like they were making orientation flights.  Thanks for all your advice!

[ZuniBee]

Great video! Don't forget to add it to zunibee.com! It looked like you both had been waiting a long time for that moment. I especially like the part where Katie asked Devin how he feels...."I feel good"!

I am so ready to get my first bees tomorrow. Seeing your video was great and now I am so pumped up I don't know if I will be able to sleep!

[Kirk-o]

What a fantastic video you guys must of had alot of fun
kirk0

[Cindi]

Devbee.  Nice video, gotta love when people take the time to do the video and to put it out there for all of us to look at.  Right on!!!!  Best to your day, good health.  Cindi

[likes2grill]

Looks like you and yours had a great time installing the bees in to the hive. I can tell there will many hours spent sitting and watching the bees together. Nice video!

[Robo]

You guys had way too much fun!    Nice job  :-D

[danno1800]

Thanks so much for posting this wonderful video! I have added a link to it on our beekeeper's club website: http://cabellwaynebeekeepers.googlepages.com/home
Thanks again! -Danno

[Sean Kelly]

Way cool man!  Congrats!  Sounded like you guys were having a blast.  Thank goodness for the rubberband your wife brought.  lol.  I never thought about the queen cage not sticking.  I have Rite-Cell foundation from Mann Lake which is basically plastic with a light coating of beeswax.  I'm pretty sure my queencage wont stick either.  Maybe I'll bring my staple gun with me and staple the cage to the frame.  I like the name you gave your hive too.  Pretty cool!!!  I love these homemade beekeeping videos.  We should have a section on this forum like the Pictures Forum just for videos.  :-)  I think I'm gunna film my install too. 

Sean

[GerryL]

DevBee, Fantastic!!! I get my Bees Saturday I can't Wait. My wife is SUPER nervous, not for me! but herself, with all those bees coming. I tell her not to worry and show her pictures of The Beemasters hives located so close between homes, she's still worried. Good luck, I hope my install goes as smoothly. Remember AlanJ LOL.

[Rich V]

Enjoyed your video.

[bluegrass]

Good Lord.....Did they live? You know what you get when the cow runs to the barn? Milk shakes. Is there a such of thing as honey shakes ;)

[Cindi]

Ha, ha, ha, ha, imagine milk shakes, straight from the cow!!!!  Best of this day, great health.  Cindi