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Overwintered Michigan Nucs — Oakland County
Address:
6815 Crestway Dr, Bloomfield Hills, MI, United States
Description:
Overwintered Michigan Nucs -- Oakland County
| Bee Information | |
| Bees for sale? | |
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| What characteristics do you use to select your breeding stock? | |
| Gentle and easy to work, honey production, hygienic. | |
| Where is the source of your bees and what strain(s) are they? | |
| Original hives were Carniolan that I acquired from a Michigan beek eight years ago and I call them my OGs, but I would say that my bees are truly Michigan Mutts. I do, on occasion, purchase a queen or two from local queen producers that I follow and respect to experiment and see how they do in my yard. | |
| Where do the bees overwinter? | |
| Michigan in single deep setups | |
| Do the bees spend the whole season in your home location? If not, where do they go and when, and for how long? | |
| Yes, they do not leave Michigan | |
| Do you monitor for varroa mites? How and how often? | |
| Yes, Constantly with random drone brood checks but do mite washes every 4-6 weeks throughout the summer/fall. | |
| Have your hives been inspected by an inspector? | |
| No | |
| Anything else? (e.g. describe your operation) | |
| I sell nucs to try to keep my hobby a hobby. In the last few years, I have really enjoyed small-scale queen rearing from hives that impress me. I experiment a lot and have a lot of gratitude for all my fellow beeks that share knowledge. Sustainable to me is not having to purchase bees anymore and I haven't done that for six years. I do have a mite management plan and will not sell a nuc to someone that is going to put them in a box and hope for the best. My mite management includes brood break, drone frames, Formic Pro and OAV. This year I intent to try ApiLifeVar and Randy Oliver's extended-release oxalic acid. Goals for 2024: Nutrition, UBeeO testing and using my 54year-old eyes to graft a solid bar of successful cells. :) | |
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