Box o' Bees!!

We recently received our new supply of bees. They come by the pound in specially built containers - wood on four sides, screen on the other two. They also have a small cage inside for the queen and a can of sugar water fort the bees to eat. They buzz all the time and 15,000 bees can be quite noisy!

The top picture is the 3lb box of bees and the one below it is a closeup of the queen cage. The bees on the cage are the attendant bees that take care of the queen.