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(I think it means he put new/live colonies of bees into 65 hives).
Installing packages means......
When you buy bees they come in “packages” which is a wood frame box that has wire mesh on two sides. The bees are sold by the pound. There will also be a little cage with the queen bee inside. And usually a can of sugar water mixture. When installing, you open the box and dump the bees into a prepared hive box, leaving the package lying beside the hive for the rest of the day so that all the straggling bees get into the box (they will be attracted to the pheromones of the queen). The little queen is left in the little queen cage, and inserted between the hive frames. After a few days the bees come to accept her as their “queen” and it becomes safe to let her out of the cage. Some queen cages are equipped with a hole plugged with a candy plug. The bees will eat the candy, breaking through the hole in a couple of days, so it works like an automated “timer” to release the queen.
The can of sugar water is poured into a “feeder” that is attached to the hive, and will supply the hive with some “food” to get them started. Hopefully by the time they use up the sugar water, there will be adequate plants blooming nearby for them to forage.
Splitting hives is a procedure we do in the spring to make new hives. When the well-established hives are very full of bees, we can remove some of the frames into new hive boxes, switching out those frames with empty frames which the established hive will quickly refill. We have to supply the new hive will need a queen, so we give it one which we either buy or better yet rear ourselves, Queen rearing is an exciting procedure where we very carefully take less than 3 day-old eggs from a strong hive and employ them in little cups into a hive with no queen. The bees will quickly go to work tending those eggs (hoping to get a new queen) until they hatch. The day before they are expected to hatch, we remove the Pupa at that stage and install them into the hives that need new queens, and they the queens emerge in their new hives.
Hope this helps explain. I’ll post some photos of all this when I have time.