I hear what you are saying about the commercial italians drowning out all other notes in the song. They didin't show up til nearly June where my bees are. As soon as I have drones about to emerge, I am going to try to do some of the Mdasplitter.com protocol and see first if I can beat the commercial guy and second if I can actually raise queens. My beekeeping is about learning and having fun this time. IF I could make the protocol work, I can see me selling bees instead of honey. I don't know how much AHB I have to worry about. The bees here are coming out of Northern California off Almonds not from Texas. If I can't escape the drones, i will just have to buy queens to change my color back every three years. Did I tell you I used Craigs list to sell honey and it was a definate hit? Search Honey for sale in Great Falls and see what worked for me. Feel free to plagarize if you want. I need to redo it now, it is far down the page. Vance