How to keep queens in cages till weather improves

[Sianerw]

I'm expecting 2 new queens tomorrow ( post permitting ). The weather forecast for tomorrow is atrocious, much better on Wednesday. I know about giving them some water, but where should I put them overnight in their cages? Warm kitchen in a box? Hopefully then on Wednesday one would be introduced to a feisty, hopelessly queenless colony, and the other one put in a nuc with brood frames, stores and nurse bees.

 

[Erichalfbee]

Mine go in a kitchen drawer.

 

[blackcloud]

Darkness is good-they rarely see light in a natural environment -no need to stress them unnecessarily.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

I leave them in the shed - in the padded envelope they arrived in

 

[Ian123]

Warm kitchen in the cupboard, the tiniest smear of water to form a window on one of the grids on cage. I’d put them in regardless of weather unless it’s bucketing down.

 

[Sianerw]

wind and rain

 

[Sianerw]

Thank you all for your suggestions! Who knows, it might be sunny and calm! If not, I can keep them safe till wednesday.

 

[Buzby]

I keep mine on top of the hot water tank (highly insulated) and just the right temperature 35 deg C

 

[Hedgerow Honey]

Bank them in supers works ok, generally though if I'm struggling for colonies I'll remove a top brood from a nuc, place on floor and insert queen, if not the final destination leave tag attached.
We run nucs with multiple broods and split off to make further colonies, works great in our system as we can have multiple frame types on a single colonie, only downside is we are constantly drip feeding to stimulate brood.
we have four frame types currently.