Live Bees Rush!

5 Queens delivered from Southern Illinois today. Priority small flat rate boxes are perfect for this. The black cap on the end of the queen cage holds sugar candy for the bees to eat.

The Queen is on the right. She is marked with a white dot and shipped with four attendants who take care of her during the trip. The dot will make it a little easier to find her inside the hive.

Live bees attract attention.

Comments

[Loren Santow]

"...shipped with four attendants who take care of her during the trip" Sounds like my alderman!
But seriously...that's a great blogpost, very informative, and provokes a lot of reflection about how we humans accelerate genetic diversity through technologies like the US Mail.