OHB Live Italian Queen Bee

Re queening a beehive is practised every one to two years by beekeepers to quickly expand a bee yard for profitable beekeeping for the market and to strengthen existing apiculture colonies in the spring.

Fill your beehives for fruit, vegetable and seed agriculture pollination and to harvest honey, honeycomb, beeswax and royal jelly.

OHB Italian bees are meticulously selected for their unrivalled performance across the essential metrics of honey production, gentle temperament, robust brood rearing capabilities and resilience in overwintering.
Collaborations with entomologists from the Tech Transfer Team dedicated to continually refining and preserving the desirable traits within OHB bee populations integrate traits such as the Minnesota Hygienic and the VSH, recognized for their unparalleled disease and mite resistance, into OHB Italian stocks, fortifying OHB bees against environmental challenges, ensuring their longevity and vitality.
 OHB Italian queen bees are meticulously bred for performance, resilience, and adaptability with a rigorous selection process for breeder queens, ensuring that only the most exceptional specimens contribute to the stock, prioritizing the health and productivity of every hive. 

OHB Italian queen bee traits:

• Certified free from Africanized genetics.
• Certified free from small hive beetle.
• Gentle and easy to manage, a good beginner apiculturist bee.
• Prolific brood producers. Each queen bee lays up to 3000 eggs a day, 90 percent of which become bees.
• Highly hygienic bees.
• Good comb builders.
• Excellent foragers.
• Excellent honey producers.
• Breeder queens are chosen based on the hive's performance in honey production, gentleness, brood-rearing viability, and overall ability to overwinter healthy and heavy.