A Cam Bishop snip followed by > my comments..
I guess I am in a minority, but I quit early packages as few years back. That year was a late spring [like this one] and I had about 20 late March packages. They were just sitting there for a few weeks, basically doing very little besides raising a little brood and eating my sugar and patties.

>You may be in the minority but you are evidently in the well thought out non emotional decision making minority.  I see much the same thing here with folks buying queens and packages. Does not seem to be much different if the person is a new beekeeper or old.  For some reason normally well thought out folks, who are patient and typically go to some effort to figure things out all of a sudden loose the capacities for reason and patience.  In the spring time this seems to be the case with many and they become very impatient for both packages, nuclei or queens when a more reasonable approach would be simply to wait.  I have tagged this as SAD.. or a seasonal affected disorder.

Gene in Central Texas...

  

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