. Economic aspects of the bee industry . • PACKAGE-BEE PRODUCER O QUEEN - BEE BREEDER Fig. 25.—The development of the package-bee industry has caused the queen- breeding industry to move southward into the southern and Texas districts and westward into the California and Arizona districts. While the White Clover Belt still has a number of queen breeders, the number is less than those in the southern district. Note the lack of producers in the intermountain district and Plains area. Package-bee producers in most cases produce queens. (Data based upon unpublished material compiled by the authors
. Economic aspects of the bee industry . • PACKAGE-BEE PRODUCER O QUEEN - BEE BREEDER Fig. 25.—The development of the package-bee industry has caused the queen- breeding industry to move southward into the southern and Texas districts and westward into the California and Arizona districts. While the White Clover Belt still has a number of queen breeders, the number is less than those in the southern district. Note the lack of producers in the intermountain district and Plains area. Package-bee producers in most cases produce queens. (Data based upon unpublished material compiled by the authors.) Canada; for California, the intermountain district, Pacific Northwest, and western Canada (fig. 26). There is, however, a certain amount of overlapping, especially by producers having stock of recognized high quality. California.—Commercial queen-breeding is a recent adjunct74 to Cali- fornia beekeeping, and its production has been doubled in the past de- cide (table 23). It is centered in the Sacramento Valley and in the north- ern end of the San Joaquin Valley where natural conditions are favor- able for this specialized business (fig. 25). The character of pollen and nectar flows tend to promote early and sustained brood-rearing, a neces- 74 The development of queen production has followed closely that of package beea (page 99), although it started shortly after 1900 in the southern part of the state.
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