At 04:57 PM 6/3/2005, you wrote:
>I recently attempted to buy 2 queens and called around to quite a few
>smaller and larger outfits.  I was very surprised to hear that a number of
>them were completely sold out for the rest of the season!

A number of northern outfits have had trouble with unseasonably cold
weather April and May putting them seriously behind schedule.  I'm also
aware of at least one CA outfit that had an incubator failure and lost some
20,000 queens.  I'm not sure what impact weather elsewhere or the massive
losses we've heard about from some of the big commercial outfits may have
made on the supply.

-Tim

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