On Saturday the 15th I installed my fist package of bees. They are Buckfast. All went well and it is good to be back into beekeeping. Saturday was sunny and the temp was in the 70s. Since then we have been having hard rain off and on so they have had little time to fly. I have fed them a quart of surup and they have less then a quarter of that left. The last time I kept bees was in the 80's. I lived in Northern California at the time and managed 12 hives of Italians and Caucasians. Back then we didn't wory about Verrona. Now I live in Blue Springs, Missouri, suburb of Kansas City, on two acres. Thank for all the information on the list. David N. Brown Blue Springs, MO