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.

Hygienic Italian Hybrids

• We purchase these Instrumentally Inseminated Breeder Queens from Glenn Apiaries.
• These breeder queens are a blend of Minnesota Hygienic x VSH stock.
• The queens from these breeders are open mated with all of our stock and they have proven to be very good queens.

Carniolans

• OHB has three sources for Instrumentally Inseminated Breeder Queens: Strachan Apiaries "New World Carniolan", Latshaw Apiaries "Karnica", Glenn Apiaries "Carniolan x VSH"
• Carniolans are known for their winter hardiness, rapid spring build-up and great honey production.
• Carniolans show great resistance to tracheal mites and are great comb builders.
• The queens we produce from these breeders are open mated with all of our stock. These queens have performed well in all areas and we are confident that you will be pleased.