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Pop Pop’s Apiaries mated queen honey bee, ready for introduction into a hive.

Premium Hybrid VSH Mated Queen Honey Bee-MARKED

SKU: 364115376135191
$50.00Price

VSH Mated Queen Honey Bee.

Strengthen your honey bee colonies with high-quality VSH mated queens from Pop Pop’s Apiaries. Our queens are selected for strong colony performance, productive brood patterns, and desirable Varroa Sensitive Hygiene traits that support healthier, more resilient honey bee colonies.

VSH, or Varroa Sensitive Hygiene, is a beneficial behavior that helps honey bees identify and remove brood affected by reproducing Varroa mites. Adding VSH genetics to your apiary can support your overall mite-management program while promoting colony health, productivity, and long-term survival.

Each queen is naturally mated and carefully evaluated before sale. Our VSH mated queens are an excellent choice for replacing an aging or failing queen, requeening an aggressive colony, improving colony genetics, or establishing a queenless hive.

Benefits of VSH Mated Queens

  • Selected for Varroa Sensitive Hygiene traits

  • Naturally mated and ready for introduction

  • Helps improve colony health and resilience

  • Supports a more sustainable Varroa mite-management strategy

  • Suitable for established colonies, splits, nucs, and queen replacement

  • Selected for productive brood patterns and desirable temperament

 

While VSH genetics can help reduce the reproductive success of Varroa mites, they should be used as part of a complete integrated pest-management program. Beekeepers should continue monitoring mite levels and treating colonies when necessary.

Our queens are provided in a queen cage with attendants and food for safe transport and introduction. For the best results, carefully inspect the colony for an existing queen and queen cells before installing your new queen.

Order your VSH mated queens from Pop Pop’s Apiaries and introduce strong, carefully selected genetics into your bee yard.

Availability is seasonal and may be limited during periods of high demand. Early reservations are recommended.

  • PRODUCT INFO

    The queen comes in an easy-to-use cage with queen candy for timed release.

  • RETURN & REFUND POLICY

    Our queens receive the highest level of care and are vibrant and healthy. Please inspect your new queen upon arrival to ensure it meets your approval. Once the queen leaves our facility, we cannot control her care and therefore cannot guarantee her well-being. While acceptance of a new queen by the colony is typically high, there are occasional cases where the hive may reject a newly introduced queen.

  • SHIPPING INFO

    Sorry, this item has no shipping; local pickup by appointment is usually within a day or two at our Griffin, GA location. 

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