No worries!  Numbers don't matter!   

This year one GA supplier in particular had issues with queens,  I know I
got right around 200 that had to be replaced,  while they sent replaments,
they were actually worse than the first round!

Don't forget though,  that packages are fake swarms,  and queen replacement
is pretty normal even though most don't ever know it or see it.

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I don't agree with any of this. 

1) numbers do matter, otherwise we are not talking about facts but BS.

2) 200 poor queens, replaced by 200 worse queens, those numbers would matter to me, not to mention the waste of time.

3) packages are not fake swarms. A queen in a package should last as long as a queen in a divide made any other way. Queen failure is a consequence of commercial queen rearing practices. In fact, most mast production methods produce inferior products: compare store bought fruit to home raised. 

PLB

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