The queens in our hives include both locally-adapted queens raised by our own bees and professionally produced purebred queens of different types. Queen Osa is our oldest living queen, hatched around May 20th, 2019. She has a green dot of paint on her thorax, indicating that 2019 is the year she hatched.

Our active queen lines:

Our Ursula queen line is descended from an Italian-Carniolan hybrid package queen from 2018. The line includes Osa, Demeter Jr., Zorro, Persephone, Cleopatra, Angelica Jr., and Ursa Minor.

Queen Saskia is the locally-bred daughter of an OHB Saskatraz queen.

Queen Maya is an OHB Carniolan queen.

Queen Marzanna is an OHB Russian queen.

Queen Periwinkle is a queen of unknown heritage that came with a swarm caught near Perry’s Hollow in the spring of 2021.

Queen Phoenix is a local queen obtained from a local beekeeper in late 2021 to help get a queenless colony through winter.