Product Details
Description
All About Carniolan Honey Bees
When choosing honey bees for your colony, consider the following key attributes of the Carniolan species:
- Dark in color
- Mostly gentle, easy to calm with smoke
- Good honey production
- Clusters during winter and keep the hive warm
Choose Carniolans for a Thriving Hive
As a subspecies of the Western honey bee, Carniolans are a popular choice for their adaptability to weather, robust honey production, calm temperament, and foraging abilities.
Carniolans are also impressively resistant to parasites and diseases, ensuring your colony will stay strong and healthy throughout the year.
Queen orders are prepaid. Orders are subject to a $5 change or cancellation fee after the prepayment has been processed. By purchasing, you agree to our Bee Policy.
Specification
- 0.00 LBS
- If ordering multiple breeds, please call (800) 880-7694 to place your order and receive quantity break pricing.
- Live bees can only ship within the contiguous United States.
- Queens are mated and unmarked.
- Honey Bee Genetics produces queens and bees year-round in the temperate climate of the Sacramento Valley in California.
- They are a leader in the industry because their beekeepers have many years of expertise and care about producing healthy, hygienic, & well-nourished bees.
- HBG queens install easily and establish strong, hygienic hives that are excellent honey producers.
- Steve Taber and Tom Parisian began Honey Bee Genetics in 1979 with a goal of breeding a disease resistant stock of hygienic bees with an ability to overcome American Foulbrood. Honey Bee Genetics was purchased by the Tauzer Family in April 2020.
- Tauzer Apiaries has a long-standing relationship with Honey Bee Genetics and sustains the important queen rearing practices begun by Tom and Steve so long ago. Mark Tauzer and the Tauzer Family have been beekeeping and raising queens since 1973.
- Honey Bee Genetics follows the same successful breeding techniques of continuously testing our stock for these traits & carefully breeding our queens to produce specific hygienic traits that help create resistance to Varroa mites & other diseases.
