Quality Queen bees! Russian, Cordovan, Italian, Carniolan and Minnesota Hygienic! Breeder Queens, Instrumentally Inseminated Queen bees…
Hybrids vs. Pure (certified) Russians: As with any strain of honey bee, Russians will interbreed with other strains of honey bees, which results in hybrids that have the characteristics of both strains.
Our specialty is Russian queen breeding, nucs, and shipments of package bees. We begin taking pre-orders on products the 1st of every …
“The primary purpose of the corporation will be to maintain and improve the genetic lines of Russian honey bees through propagation and selective breeding.”
It is known that the parents of the current Primorsky (Russian) species of bees were brought from Western Europe in 1850 by Ukrainian immigrants. In 1905, with the opening of the Trans-Siberian railway other species of bees were imported from Europe in Primorsky district.
The Russian honeybee refers to honey bees (Apis mellifera) that originate in the Primorsky Krai region of Russia. This strain of bee was imported into the United States in 1997 by the USDA’s Honeybee Breeding, Genetics & Physiology Laboratory in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in response to severe declines in bee populations caused by …
An educational resource to encourage, motivate and establish new beekeepers. Builds cedar beehives and breeds Russian honeybees, honey and maple syrup
Bush Bees Home Italian Starline Cordovan Caucasians Carniolans Midnite Russian Buckfast German or English native bees LUS Africanized Honey Bees (AHB)
Foley’s Russian Bees Russian Nucs, Russian Queens, and Package Bee Sales. Located in Des Moines, Iowa. Foley’s Russian Bees sells Russian Nucs, Russian Mated Queens, 3lb Carniolan Packages begining in January of each year
Extra, Extra, Read All About It! We want to let you know that we will NO LONGER offer the FREE service of marking our Russian honey bee queens. Industry standard is to charge for this service, but all of these years we’ve done it freely out of the goodness of our hearts until the 2016 season when we caught all kinds of flak from one customer
