Randy Oliver Golden West - Mated Queen Bee

PLEASE READ BEFORE YOU PLACE YOUR ORDER.  In Store Pickup Only. We are excited to supply beekeepers of all sizes and experience with high-quality, genetically diversified bees, enabling each beekeeper to fulfill their goals.  Randy Oliver and his sons Eric and Ian run the successful migratory beekeeping operation Golden West Bees in the California foothills, taking their hives to almond pollination each year, and then selling a thousand nucs each spring. This is all without using any synthetic miticides since the year 2001. While monitoring their hives for mite infestation in 2017, they discovered a colony that maintained mite counts of zero, without any treatments. Sensing an opportunity to free their bees from the plague of varroa, Randy decided to begin a serious selective breeding program, starting with daughters grafted from that “Queen Zero.” Each year they split and requeen all their 1500 hives, solely with daughters of queens that headed the previous season’s most mite-r