Hello Peter & All, Thanks for your post! My monetary figure was a figure given to me by an Australian queen breeder for what he considered his final cost to go to the country from which the import would come from. Arrange for the stock to be sent to Australia and covers all cost involved including his labor. 4-5 thousand for each import of genetics. Two imports I have heard spoken of were Italian varroa tolerant queens and Buckfast queens. Only larva actually are imported into the country at the end of the process when the larva are deemed safe to import. I kind of embarrassed to post the following but to be honest I feel I must. The Australian queen import has refused our attempts to import queens into Australia from the U.S.( through their import system). Surely I need not say why. bob **************************************************** * General Information About BEE-L is available at: * * http://www.honeybeeworld.com/bee-l/default.htm * ****************************************************