The queen-

Here she is! She came with some worker bee's in her little coop to feed her. what I did here was place her on the frames of the hive to see the reaction of the Buckfast bee's when they get her scent. It could go two ways. It could go the way of her death- meaning the bee's would "ball," her. Balling is a honey bee's  defense mechanism. what they do is clump together over the opposing item (whether it bee a foreign bee or a new queen) and beat their wings so fast as to heat up the item. Thus cooking it. My fear was they would do this to the queen- but as I sat and watched they instead cleaned their tongues, and immediately fed her. So it went "well."  Check out the background bee's- see any "vibrating? These gals are doing the bee dance to let the others know that there is something tasty at "insert gps location here." Yah- they are THAT right on. Certain movements mean a certain direction.

Any cracking noises you hear are my gloves getting stuck to the camera. Propolis up the wahzoo on my gloves.