>Just wondering what some of you guys found out this past year concerning the >Harbo queens. Seems to me that, some of them I have are way behind on brood >and overall bee numbers this spring. >I was wanting to cross some of them, but now am concerned about the above >effects. Is this only a problem with mine? Any comments? >preacher No, I have the same problem. The best queens I had came from my mongrels and the daughters of the All-Americans I got from Texas. Very best in mutual disapointment, Tim Vaughan