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Virginia Queen Bees
Address:
Smithfield, Virginia 23430, United States
Description:
Virginia Queen Bees - Ruth Meredith
| Bee Information | |
| Bees for sale? | |
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| What characteristics do you use to select your breeding stock? | |
| We maintain Instrumentally Inseminate Breeder Queens from reputable queen breeders or genetically superior open-mated queens that are kept for the express purpose of generating new queen bees for distribution within the Commonwealth of Virginia to enhance the gene pool of our local stock. We sell direct daughters (F1) of these Inseminated Breeder Queens and F2 queens of the open mated specialty queens. We recognize that there are multiple breeding programs happening through out the USA and we strive to add as much genetic diversity from these programs to our individual lines whenever possible. | |
| Where is the source of your bees and what strain(s) are they? | |
| We purchase Breeder queens from multiple queen breeders, including Jason Bragg of New River Honeybees, Cory Stevens of Stevens Bee Co, Michael Palmer of French Hill Apiaries, John Harbo , and VP Queens. We currently offer Canadian Denmark Buckfast bees, Carniolans, Pol-line and VSH Italian bees along with our robust local blend. | |
| Where do the bees overwinter? | |
| All of our bees overwinter in various parts of Virginia. | |
| Do the bees spend the whole season in your home location? If not, where do they go and when, and for how long? | |
| All of the bees that we raise stay in Virginia | |
| Do you monitor for varroa mites? How and how often? | |
| Yes through various testing methods | |
| Have your hives been inspected by an inspector? | |
| Yes they are | |
| Anything else? | |
| Our network of beekeepers that sell the queens hold various certifications in Queen Production from the Kentucky Queen Bee Breeders Association to the Virginia Master Beekeepers state program. | |
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