i'll bring back randy vercook to the conversation. if you have to keep upping your population of bees and trying to cope with these sizable losses year after year is that finally going to send a price signal? are you going to have to change the way you do business in ways that make an apricot cost more a plum cost more an almond cost more down the road? >> yes, absolutely. you know i've been doing this thing for 25 years. and it's -- i've just seen constant change. i've had to move my operation several times mainly because of farming practices. and you know i talked earlier about adaptation, that's part of what we have to do. part of the adapting part is spending more money on our bees trying to keep them alive. if you are making up bees all year long you got to think of a hive as like an -- you know it's like a single little bee factory. and a full production, full honey production hive takes about 50,000 bees to really get in a full crop. and it takes about 20, 25,000 bees just to maintain the hive. so you have 20, 30,000 little buc