>
> When I worked at the Dyce Lab, I often installed large numbers of packages
> (100-150) in poor weather. I prefer to get packages in May but it wasn't up
> to me at the time. They came in April, so I put installed them, sometimes
> with snow.
>

   It seems that, in Colorado at least, it doesn't matter when your
packages come.  It snows and freezes the next three days regardless.  The
main danger in manipulating hives in the cold is chilled brood. You don't
have to worry about that with a package.
Cheers,
Kristina
Boulder, CO

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