We are constantly working on improving the quality of the queens you purchase from us. Last year we implemented the "Queen Trac" System. Each queen you purchase will have a number on the cage. This number corresponds to the queen mother. If you are willing to save the cage: place it in-between some side frames out of your way, you can become part of our eyes and ears out in the field. This will help us continually pick from the best "survivor" lines.

The "Queen Trac" system allows tracking many items for our use. Each tag as seen above contains info as to the grafting date, queen mother, etc.

In 2012 when you purchase a queen from us the number marked on the cage will refer to the queen mother of the caged queen. Our Queen Mother numbering system is as follows: