A caution for those involved in shipping or receiving bees or queens:
 
   When you put on (or ask your supplier to put on) a note intended to
   avoid overheating the bees in transit, don't indicate KEEP COOL.
    Perhaps "keep at room temperature" or "not over ___ degrees C (or F)"
 
   To shippers of flowers and many other items, COOL means the
   refrigerator. Queens and even packages don't do well treated that way,
   and the label wording may negate an insurance claim, even if it is
   otherwise justified.
 
 
   Kerry Clark, Apiculture Specialist
   B.C. Ministry of Agriculture
   1201 103 Ave
   Dawson Creek B.C.
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