> I am getting phone calls from people who have Italian bees and bought
> a Russian queen or started a nuc with a Russian queen and failed to
> have a good introduction.

I have a picture somewhere on my site (can't find it) that Aaron sent me
years ago of number of queen cages standing on end packed in a row in
pairs back to back with US stock on one end and Russian on the other.
There were maybe twelve 3-hole cages in the block.

Anyhow, the attendant bees or bees from the yard (can't recall) were
thick on the US queen cages and sparse on the Primorsky cages.

It was a very graphic demonstration of the difference the bees see in 
the two stocks.

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