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Walnut Ridge Bees
Address:
Dexter, MI 48130, USA
Description:
| Bee Information | |
| Bees for sale? | |
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| What characteristics do you use to select your breeding stock? | |
| I mostly select for honey production. Secondary factors include survivability, mite levels, temperament, but in general a quality honey crop indicates that these other factors are well in hand so I tend to focus on honey production since it's easily measurable and quantifiable. | |
| Where is the source of your bees and what strain(s) are they? | |
| Nearly all of my bees are descended from an initial "Michigan Survivor" colony, however I also have a couple of queens with Purdue genetics. | |
| Where do the bees overwinter? | |
| Dexter, MI. | |
| Do the bees spend the whole season in your home location? If not, where do they go and when, and for how long? | |
| My bees are non-migratory. Unless they are split out and moved to a different yard, the generally stay in the same location year round. | |
| Do you monitor for varroa mites? How and how often? | |
| I perform an alcohol wash on every colony in the spring and then every 1-2 months thereafter throughout the season. | |
| Have your hives been inspected by an inspector? | |
| No | |
| Anything else? | |
| I'm not producing nucs as much as selling off extra colonies at the end of the winter. Willing to sell nucs with the overwintered queen or a made up nuc, split out from the overwintered colony, with a first year queen. Please contact me for availability. | |
| Number of queens interested in exchanging at any one time (are you looking for 40, or just a couple)? | |
| 3-5 | |
| What type of queens do you have available to trade? | |
| Depending on where we are in the season, I would trade 1st year overwintered queens, newly mated queens, virgins or cells. | |
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Selling Nucs
Bee Exchange
Contact Information
Phone:
(540) 255-3364