At 00:14 13/04/96 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi-all!
>Question:
>Is it nessesury that package-bees have a full developt queen with it. Would it
>be possible to send them just with a piece of open brut? Horizonticly fixt in
>the package-box? Or is it thinkeble to offer the pachage-bees just a piece of
>foam material enriched with the smell of a queen? I think this bees could be
>used to strengthen a small colony in spring without the cost of a queen, or the
>queen could be added somewhere else.
>Any experience and answers? Thanks at all.
>
>andreas haehnle
A company called Phero Tech products in Armstrong, B.C.  Canada, advertises
a product called BEE BOOST, which contains a queen pheromone.  They claim it
will allow the shipping of queenless packages.  Their phone no. is
(604)546-9870.