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Becky’s Birds and Bees
Address:
Dexter, MI 48130
Description:
Becky's Birds and Bees
| Bee Information | |
| Bees for sale? | |
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| What characteristics do you use to select your breeding stock? | |
| I look for bees with gentle behavior, overwinter survivors, honey production, but I raise bees by splits, and don't have a breeding stock per say. | |
| Where is the source of your bees and what strain(s) are they? | |
| I order a handful of VSH queens each spring. All the rest of my bees are locally raised by spring and summer splits, i.e., they are Michigan mutts. | |
| Where do the bees overwinter? | |
| Dexter, Michigan | |
| Do the bees spend the whole season in your home location? If not, where do they go and when, and for how long? | |
| They do not move. | |
| Do you monitor for varroa mites? How and how often? | |
| I generally try to monitor every 4 weeks by sugar roll or wiper fluid wash, but last week the bees kept me too busy just keeping up with splits to do as much monitoring as I would like to do. | |
| Have your hives been inspected by an inspector? | |
| No | |
| Anything else? (e.g. describe your operation) | |
| I am a small scale beekeeper, who does "queen rearing by doing splits". I am selling a few late summer over winter queen nucs. I also have some nucs queens raised earlier last year that desperately want to be hived, and I am open to negotiating price for those. Although I try to use IPM and would someday like to be treatment free or minimal treatment, after a couple of very large overwinter losses, for the past two seasons I have treated all my bees with Apiguard right after the honey supers come off and have had very good over winter survival the past two winters. | |
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Selling Nucs
Contact Information
Phone:
(734) 078-0710
Website:
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Email:
becky@beckysbirdsandbees.com