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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 inseminationallows 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 inBaton 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.    

Attention: Glenn Apiaries sells only instrumentally inseminated breeder queens, to be used as breeding stock. For sources of naturally mated production queens see our referral list.

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