Lloyd Spear wrote: Now...if only someone would tell us how to get bumblebees to produce queens and drones so we, as beekeepers, could get a piece of the market for supplying them as pollinators! Apparently it is not very difficult. The colonies can be kept in a flight cage and will produce mated queens. These are then caught and put with some newly emerged worker honeybees to found colonies. Peter Edwards [log in to unmask] -- Visit www.honeybeeworld.com/bee-l for rules, FAQ and other info ---