Queens 2024

We will have imported Queens starting in March 2024.

We will bring in High Quality Hygenic queens from Oliverez in Northern California.  Raised for the Canadian market.

More info to follow in 2024

Full Payment is Required when Ordering/Reserving a Queen. No Refund for cancelations.

NOTE about  Oliverez Italian Queens:  “We’ve infused the “Minnesota Hygienic” and the “VSH” traits into our Italian stock, in an effort to enhance disease and mite resistance or tolerance.

IMPORTANT: Cowichan Bees and Supplies provides NO GUARANTEE with honeybee livestock.

– Introducing a Queen Bee to an existing colony is not a guarantee that the new queen bee will be accepted, will start laying eggs nor escape the cage it is shipped in.

– Queen Bees are not recommended to be used on their own to start a colony.

Video on how to Re-queen a Hive by Randy Oliver of Scientific Beekeeping

https://www.ohbees.com/pages/tutorials/#introduce-new-queen

ABOUT THESE QUEENS:

Oliverez Italian Queens from Northern California

They’ve infused the “Minnesota Hygienic” and the “VSH” traits into our Italian stock, in an effort to enhance disease and mite resistance or tolerance.

Italian Queens form the backbone of Oliverez Honey Bee (OHB). They choose their breeder queens based on the hive’s performance in honey production, gentleness, brood-rearing viability, and overall ability to overwinter healthy and heavy. In addition, OHB has worked with the “Tech Transfer Team,” developed by world-renowned entomologist Marla Spivak, since before its official launch in an effort to identify and maintain desirable traits in our current stock. They’ve infused the “Minnesota Hygienic” and the “VSH” traits into our Italian stock, in an effort to enhance disease and mite resistance or tolerance.

Italian traits:

  • Gentle and easy to manage (a good “beginner bee”)
  • Prolific brood producers
  • Highly hygienic
  • Good comb builders
  • Excellent foragers
  • Excellent honey producers