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Varroa Sensitive Hygiene (VSH)
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Glenn Apiaries is dedicated to breeding honeybees for high honey production and disease resistance. We provide instrumentally inseminated breeder queens for stock improvement, research and biotechnology.
Instrumental insemination allows us to completely control the mating of the queens and drones. This technology provides the control necessary for the efficient breeding of honeybees for specific traits of productivity and disease resistance. Since 1977 we have produced hundreds of thousands of queens which have been used by bee breeders and honeybee researchers around the world.
VSH - The state of the art line of bees for controlling mites and diseases naturally
VSH stands for
Varroa
Sensitive Hygiene, a naturally occurring trait of honeybees. This behavioral trait causes the worker bees to detect, uncap and remove varroa infested brood.
Disrupting the reproduction of the varroa mites in this way effectively limits the population growth of the mites, often eliminating the need for miticide treatments.
This line of bees was selectively bred by USDA scientists in an impressive example of science working with nature to provide a sustainable solution to a very serious problem.
In 2001, Glenn Apiaries entered into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the USDA Bee Breeding Lab in Baton Rouge, LA. to propagate and distribute VSH queens. All of our lines of breeder queens now have the VSH trait incorporated in order to produce an optimum balance of productivity and mite resistance.
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