A package and system for holding and transporting small living beings, particularly, insects such as honeybees and the like, configurable in a robust, sturdy three-dimensional shape for handling and transport by mail and commercial carriers, which prevents stinging from within the package, allows escape of smaller accompanying insects such as hive beetles, is interlocking with others of the packages and strong enough to support other packages and items thereon that provides for air flow through and about the package for heat dissipation for proper honeybee environment that accommodates food and separately carrying a queen bee and that can be easily and quickly broken down into a non-operational, generally flat configuration for initial sale, transport, and storage.
