I"m enjoying this discussion on drones, but from memory I'm getting conflicting ideas about the location of drone producing hives. From what I can tell, it's best to have your drone supply colonies located about a mile from your mating yard; ideally there being four or more drone hives, located at the four major points of the compass. However, I have read that some queen producers keep their drone hives in the same yard as their mating nucs. Is there a clear, diffinitive answer to this conflict of ideas? Mike in LA *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html Guidelines for posting to BEE-L can be found at: http://honeybeeworld.com/bee-l/guidelines.htm