For a few years, I was somewhat concerned with the amount of package bees being brought into the area each year. 400 +/-100. Delivery date is usually last Saturday of April to first week of May. I start splitting hives 4/27-5/6. So all my Queens are mated and laying before package bees first round of brood emerges. Most of the package bees end up east of me 20+ miles. With 22 different yards, some was ending up close tho. The number of packages will be less, since I just bought out the operation of the major user of packages in this area. Tim Ives *********************************************** 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