packaged bee's

[pdmattox]

What time of year do you install package bees, summer, spring, fall or does it matter?

[Kirk-o]

you get packages in the spring and install them then April
kirk

[Ruben]

Mostly April or May, plus you want to order them in the fall or they may not be available when you call in the spring.

[Brian D. Bray]

Packages bees are considered a Spring time acquisition.  Usually if you haven't order your queens by March 1st you are out of luck ot have to search real hard for a supplier will to fill late orders.  
Nuc's can be purchased until about the 1st of May.  Later and the odds of be the bees successfully wintering dec lines rapidly.