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Start or expand your apiary with a four frame honey bee nuc featuring an OHB Italian queen from Olivarez Honey Bees. Each nuc is an established colony with a laying queen, worker bees, brood in different stages, drawn comb, and food stores.

 

These bees originated from local feral colonies that were professionally rescued and relocated. After being established and evaluated, the colonies were requeened with Italian queens selected for strong colony performance, gentleness, brood production, foraging ability, and honey production.

 

Italian queens are a popular choice for beekeepers because they are generally gentle, easy to manage, strong brood producers, good comb builders, and productive foragers. The queen stock used for these nucs also includes hygienic and VSH traits intended to support improved disease and mite tolerance.

 

These nucs are a great option for beekeepers who want a strong, organized starter colony with quality queen genetics and bees that are already established and growing.