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Melody Hope Apiaries LLC
Address:
206 Black Hill Rd, Plainfield, CT 06374 United States
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Melody Hope Apiaries LLC
| Bee Information | |
| Bees for sale? | |
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| What characteristics do you use to select your breeding stock? | |
| calmness, staying on the frame, Honey production, overwintering and food stores | |
| Where is the source of your bees and what strain(s) are they? | |
| We started using Sazkatraz in 2021 for all our colonies from Olivarez Honey Bees (OHB) and with the top performers we grafted and open matted with the profile we are looking for. In 2023 we have 2 queens to graft from which if there linage follows we expect to have successful queens | |
| Where do the bees overwinter? | |
| Our bees overwinter in Plainfield Ct | |
| Do the bees spend the whole season in your home location? If not, where do they go and when, and for how long? | |
| The bees are located at 3 yards in Plainfield and a small yard in Canterbury Ct | |
| Do you monitor for varroa mites? How and how often? | |
| We monitor for varroa using the soap or alcohol wash method during the spring two times min during summer and in the fall. if mites are above the threshold we use the Honey Bee Coalition varroa management decision tool using natural derived acids. | |
| Have your hives been inspected by an inspector? | |
| Our colonies haven't been inspected this year 5/1/23 but will be inspected for anything we plan on selling. | |
| Anything else? (e.g. describe your operation) | |
| Melody Hope Apiaries is owned and operated as a part time business by Patricia and David Kettle. We Started quite by accident finding a swarm in 2019 which got us hooked. Each year we've grown in size and attend many bee conferences. I am currently enrolled in EPIQ (Education Production and Insemination of Queens) with Penn State. Our goal is to provide quality queens/Nucs that can over winter in the northeast and produce nice honey yields. During the spring and summer of 2022 I started grafting queens looking for the best traits, calmness, staying on the frame, Honey production and overwintering, We have two queens that wintered that meet the criteria and are over achievers, we will grafting from these during the 2023 season. These queens will be in Nuc's long enough to confirm a good brood pattern before sales and Nuc sales will be inspected by the Ct bee inspector approximately by the first of June. | |
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Selling Nucs
Selling Queens