On May 7, 2007, at 5:49 AM, Bob Harrison wrote:

> Our industry has come to depend on those packages & QUEENS. My 
> beekeeping
> partner called around 10-15 queen producers Friday and finally found a 
> small
> order of queens available in Alabama. The same thing happened last 
> year and
> the only place we could find queens was out of Australia.  We took a 
> 500
> queen order and they were gone within hours.

I'm curious to find out about the Hawaii-raised queens.  Do they also 
run short on supply, or are they a different variety than what you 
need?

Molokai Meli

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