Ladies and gentlemen, if you will indulge me please for educational purposes. Lets think out of the box for a bit. For the folks that breed queens, and would like to mate queens as long as possible, pollen or no pollen a dearth or not. Breeding, either by natural or AI is not possible without drones. So, when the dearth comes in between flows and the pollen stops coming until the next flow and breeders still wanting to mate their queens, what do they do for drones? As per replies, Drones dwindle down in some areas in June, some in July, some in August. On Jim's farm they are already gone. This is why I ask if any of you use the green drone comb. Now, here comes "from outside of the box' question. I don't know if this is done, or has been done, or is in practice even now. but what or why not graft for drones? If we can graft for queen inside queen cups, why can't we graft for drones using green drone cells? Would this not satisfy the need for drones in the off times? Especially for the Ai folks? I look forward to your replies. Thanks, Phillip Hall