Queen Rearing March 2021 pt 2

March 21, 2021

Our beekeepers in California have begun our first queen rearing initiative. March is swarming time in California, and hives are full of larvae and nurse bees that can be separated out for use in raising queens. Our beekeepers will take “splits” from hives with high-performing queens whose colonies have shown encouraging resistance to varroa mites. 

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