![]() Queen Cells and Virgin Queen Bees available from February thru July. We discovered that a virgin queen after being mated must lay eggs for 10 days, and be eating royal jelly as their food source to result in a premium mated queen. These queens included 2-VHS (Varroa Sensitive Hygienic), 2-Minnesota Hygienic Italian, 2-Cariniolan Italian, 2-Cardovan Italian (red-head), and 2-Russian (1-Black and 1-Yellow). We purchased two of each kind of the breeder queens that Mr. We choose Glen Apiaries in Fallbrook, California as our source for the breeds of queen bees we wanted for the pollinating and honey production operations. We purchased an excellent queen cell stock for our beta queens. The next step would be to purchase quality queen cells which would turn into the best queen bees for our expanding bee apiary and pollination services businesses. In the summer of 2009, a decision was made to start our new adventure – a complete in house queen bee rearing operation. After time the quality of queens that were bought from outside sources were getting worse and worse each year. It was hard to find quality queen bees for the bee pollination services for our farms and ranches customers. Buy queen bees online from API because our process will lead to quality queen bees for your honey beehives or crop pollination requirements.ĪPI Holdings use to depend on an outside queen breeder to supply the needed new queens for their bee apiary operation. With our specially designed universal Bee Mating Box the queen has ten days to become a good honey producing queen for your bee colony. ![]() “Banking” the queen during this early maturation cycle does not allow her female reproductive parts to fully develop, thus developing an inferior, and short lived queen bee. Most commercial queen breeders only let the queen to lay eggs for one day, and bank the queen in a box before sending her off to the beekeeper which increases the chances of a dead queen upon arrival. This improves the chances you receive a quality queen bee. We pull the mated queen bee from the bee mating box the same day we ship the Queen to you. WE NEVER DO “Queen Banking” Which Means Quality Queen BeesĪPI Holdings queen rearing process will make long living queen bees for your beehives because we do not “Bank the Queens” in boxes. Thank you from API Holdings LLC your quality queen bee breeder. ![]() We accept PayPal, Visa/Mastercard, or check/money order for payment. We require full payment at the time of the order. Please check our Queen Bee Availability Calendar for available shipping dates. There is a minimum of 5 or More Mated Queens for each order. Queens usually have bands on their abdomen of brown to yellow color. They are better is southern climates but known to survive in northern climates. The queens are gentle and good honey producers. Cordovan Queen BeeĬordovan queens are the most popular queen bee in North America. They fly better in slightly cooler weather, and are better in northern climates. Carniolan bees are excellent honey producers, and the queens use less propolis that other races of queen honey bees. Carniolan Queen BeeĬarniolan queens are a very gentle and prolific dark/black color honey bee variety. Italian Hygienic queens are bred to have a high degree of hygienic behavior known to be effective against diseases of the brood infestations such as foulbrood and chalkbrood honey bee diseases. Italian Hygienic queens have a combination of the best traits required for bee pollination, and high honey production in their beehives.
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