Queens, queens, queens ...: miscellaneous comments and procedures

摘要

On your behalf, and that of others, I have purchased about 30 queens from different suppliers - different strains - different colors - SMRs - hygienic queens - brand names - no names - I tried to buy some of all. For the past few days, these queenshave been arriving. We were as ready as we could be, but the weather must be combined with the splits and life becomes (more) hectic. Anytime I have packages or queens confined, I am nervous. In future articles, I will refer to the success/failure of thevarious queens, but my comments are only observational and are not intended to be considered a scientific observation. Some comments on ordering queens are appropriate at this point. We ordered by phone and by email. Frequently, when using the phone, wegot an answering machine - which was okay, but we rarely got a call back saying that our message had been received. So we would ponder, "Did they get the message or not? Will we get the queens?" But all producers filled all our orders in timely fashion.Generally, when using email, we had more communications with producers.