OHB Live Carniolan 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.

Carniolan bees are celebrated for their exceptional ability to withstand harsh winter conditions while maintaining robust colony growth come springtime.
Carniolan bees have a proven track record of outstanding honey production making them the choice for beekeepers seeking high yields and quality harvest.
Carniolan bees demonstrate impressive resistance against tracheal mites, a common threat to bee health, ensuring the longevity and vitality of your colonies. Their innate skill in comb construction further enhances hive efficiency, facilitating optimal brood rearing and honey storage.
Carniolan queen bees are renowned for their resilience, productivity, and superior genetics.
To ensure that only the finest genetic stock contributes to the OHB Carniolan bee population, bee breeding is performed through meticulous selection and advanced techniques with instrumentally inseminated breeder queens.
Carefully chosen package queens undergo open mating, fostering genetic diversity and hybrid vigor within our bee population, resulting in colonies primed for peak health and performance.

OHB Carniolan queen bee traits:

• Certified free from Africanized genetics.
• Certified free from small hive beetle.
• A good choice for colder climates, known for their winter hardiness.
• More likely to forage on cool, wet days than other bees for a rapid spring buildup.
• Quick to brood up when nectar is available.
• Each queen bee lays up to 3000 eggs a day, 90 percent of which become bees.
• Excellent honey producers.
• Excellent resistance to tracheal mites.
• Great comb builders.
• Instrumentally inseminated breeder queens then open mated for genetic diversity and hybrid vigor.