Latest News — queen bee

Our beekeeping team recently completed a fascinating queen bee breeding course down at Tocal Agricultural College. As professional beekeepers, access to great queens (with important traits such as good hygiene behaviours, temperament and productivity) is vitally important. We work with some fantastic queen bee breeders, but it's also good to have these skills in-house, not just for our own curiosity and knowledge, but so we can manage the process at different times of the year if there are delays and high demand for queens. We need new queens when we are splitting hives and raising nucs (nucleus colonies) and to replace...