Olivarez Honey Bees offers a range of products and services to meet your beekeeping and pollination needs. Whether you are a commercial beekeeper seeking to replenish your colonies, a beginning hobbyist seeking high-quality queens, or a farmer needing better crop pollination, we look forward to serving you.

OHB Italian Queens

• Italian queens form the backbone of OHB.
• We are proud to note that our Italian line has been influenced over the years by queens purchased from breeders Art Banta, Homer Park, Lloyd Penner and John Tollett. We have identified the best traits bred into their queens and added them to ours.
• We choose our breeder queens based on the hive's performance in honey production, gentleness, brood rearing viability and overall ability to overwinter healthy and heavy.
• We have taken special care of our Italians and they are the best of the best.

Minnesota Hygienic Hybrid

• These exceptionally hygienic queens show good resistance to American foulbrood and chalkbrood as well as showing some resistance to the Varroa Mite.
• We purchase our breeder queens from Glenn Apiaries (the first Minnesota Hygienic Queens were developed by Dr. Marla Spivak) and they have proven to be great honey producers as well as very gentle bees.
• We suggest these queens if you are looking for a bee that broods up well in the spring, puts up big in the winter, and is hygienic.

New World Carniolan Hybrids

• These queens are known for their winter hardiness and rapid spring build up.
• These queens work well in all areas of the country, are excellent Honey producers and comb builders. They also show resistance to tracheal mites.
• We purchase our breeder queens from Strachan Apiaries, the world's largest producer of the New World Carniolan.