Everything is set up in a dark building with red lights only

A pallet of packages

A 4-pound package of bees

2 nucs waiting with frames removed

1/2 package (2 pounds) shaken into each nuc.

It's hard to get the last bees out.

Bees are climbing the outside frames.

Middle frames go back into the nucs

A queen cage goes onto the top bars, candy exposed, screen down over a slot

Screen goes on top.  Entrances are plugged.

Nucs are stacked onto pallets and pushed into a dark ventilated store room

After all the bees have climbed up off the bottom of the nuc, several
cups of 67% sugar syrup are introduced thru the entrance hole.

Looks like some backsplash.  I think he overdid it.

Photos courtesy Joe Meijer