Is there some abnormal shortage of queens this year?   I know the demand 
for queens this time of year is always high and we often get calls 
hoping we have extra queens despite what our website says. But this year 
the number of calls is significantly increased and the civility of the 
callers significantly decreased.    You always get a couple throughout 
the season, but we've been getting more than one call where the 
beekeeper gets less than civil when our crystal ball fails and we don't 
have an extra queen for them.  A few we've had to simply hang up on 
because they just wouldn't stop ranting.

I'm sure others were affected by the unseasonably cold March and April 
that we had.   Of course maybe I'm just lucky to be the last person on 
their list to call.

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