What was found in the box?

Most of the corrugated cardboard box is now pulled away, other than the bottom. The next step was to simply lift across into a wooden bee hive, allowing the bees room to expand onto proper removable frames. Then the "burr comb can be taken away, with minimal disturbance to the colony.

A beaut hive of bees, left to their own devices for a month, following collection as a swarm in the box.