Jim, welcome to our forum, glad that you are enjoying your visit here. Good, you have been under the spell of the honeybee, otherwise you wouldn't be getting back into them after that trauma of losing your hives to the bears before. Excellent. Stick around, we love to have new members come on board here, to tell us of their experiences with the bees, ask questions and give answers. Come May you will be getting back into the bees and having some good ol' fashioned fun with them, yeah!!! Nice to have you join in here, have a wonderful and awesome day, Cindi