Crazy thing is... after 5 minutes trying to get the syrup can out (pain in the butt to do this year...) I pulled the queen cage out, covered the bees from escaping, only to find out at the queen that came with the package was dead. I immediately called my bee supply store with enough time to get them to stick around a little bit longer, so I could get a living queen from them in exchange.
I think I know why the package queen was dead. There were only TWO holes in the feeding can. TWO! That's not enough for 10,000+ bees to feed from, let alone take any syrup in to convert it for feeding the queen.
The whole afternoon from 2 p.m. onward had hiccups. A 1 hour round trip for a new queen nearly mae me scream... lol