Bob queries: define appreciable risk? In my view, importing from Chile entails no risk, but then I haven't studied it closely. To the best of my knowledge, they have no pests that we do not already have. What they don't have that Australia has: Apis cerana. What they don't have that northern Argentina, tropical America and Mexico have: African bees. What they do have is a high quality bee industry and a season that lends itself to offering queens for sale when most US producers don't have them, like right now. PLB *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html Guidelines for posting to BEE-L can be found at: http://honeybeeworld.com/bee-l/guidelines.htm