Queen Selection
The foundation of the queen stock we select for grafting come from Joe Latshaw's breeder queens. The queens are selected based on honey production, temperament, mite tolerance and resistance to diseases.
We don't catch our queens for 4 weeks after dropping cells into the mating nucs. This is longer than most commercial outfits wait, but we feel this extra time is needed to really vet the queens before we catch and ship them to our customers.
