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orvette1
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« on: July 15, 2009, 12:58:28 AM »
In Hawaii we can only buy queens from Hawaii. There is only one place that will sell queens to us on Oahu.  I had to wait 6 months before I could order 2 new queens.  I put them in two nucs. I went down there today to make sure they got out of the cage. They hadn't, so I opened one and shook her to the bottom.  Before I could get the top back on she climbed to the top and flew away!  The second one almost got away also! Now I have to wait for another 2-3 months before I can get a new queen.  I can't believe my luck!
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« Reply #1 on: July 15, 2009, 05:09:18 AM »
That sure is bad luck.

Do you have any eggs that you can use to breed your own?

Mick
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On the outer Barcoo where the churches are few,
   And men of religion are scanty,
On a road never cross'd 'cept by folk that are lost,
   One Michael Magee had a shanty.

Now this Mike was the dad of a ten-year-old lad,
   Plump, healthy, and stoutly conditioned;
He was strong as the best, but poor Mike had no rest
   For the youngster had never been christened,
A BUSH CHRISTENING - A.B. "Banjo" Paterson http://www.middlemiss.org/lit/authors/patersonab/poetry/christen.html
RayMarler
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« Reply #2 on: July 15, 2009, 05:37:53 AM »
Perhaps your luck will make a turn for the better and the queens will come back by the end of the day.
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« Reply #3 on: July 15, 2009, 03:06:40 PM »
Quote from: orvette1 on July 15, 2009, 12:58:28 AM
Before I could get the top back on she climbed to the top and flew away! 

Mating flight.
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« Reply #4 on: July 15, 2009, 03:15:12 PM »
usually when you buy queens they are mated.  at least CONUS they are.
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"Nay, it [this constitution of government] must perish, if there be not that vital spirit in the people, which alone can nourish, sustain, and direct all its movements. It is in vain, that statesmen shall form plans of government, in which the beauty and harmony of a republic shall be embodied in visible order, shall be built up on solid substructions, and adorned by every useful ornament, if the inhabitants suffer the silent power of time to dilapidate its walls, or crumble its massy supporters into dust; if the assaults from without are never resisted, and the rottenness and mining from within are never guarded against. Who can preserve the rights and liberties of the people, when they shall be abandoned by themselves? Who shall keep watch in the temple, when the watchmen sleep at their posts? Who shall call upon the people to redeem their possessions, and revive the republic, when their own hands have deliberately and corruptly surrendered them to the oppressor, and have built the prisons, or dug the graves of their own friends?

– Justice Joseph Story, "Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States," Volume II, Chapter XIII: Mode of Passing Laws, Sections 900-901, pp. 364 (1833)
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« Reply #5 on: July 25, 2009, 09:50:23 AM »
Orvette, what a bummer.  Perhaps she may fly back, you never know, and I surely do hope so.  That is so surprising that you are so close to where the Kona Hawaiian queens are raised that there is such a long time to get one on order.  They are probably too busy exporting the queens all over the world to pay closer attention to those that are close to them.  Sorry about that for you, it is sad.  Have a wonderful day, great health.  Cindi
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