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Caucasian Honeybee Characteristics
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IMPORTANT UPDATE: Coming in 2025: A very good line of Russian and Italian honeybees. Prices have been posted so be sure to check them out.
Due to very high costs of credit card processing, we will not be accepting credit cards for the 2025 season. Credit cards get paid from the customer and company accepting them and are making a fortune while the company and beekeeper do all the work. It is also another move toward digital currency where the government will able to track everything you spend your money on and all the income you receive.The new posted prices reflect the no credit card price. We passed the savings on to you the customer. We will be accepting cash, checks, and money orders. If you pay by check, the order will be required to be paid in full at least two weeks before shipment or pickup to allow the check to clear your bank. We encourage everyone pick up their order instead of shipment. The post office is doing a terrible job of delivering bees live. It would be best if you pool your orders with other beekeepers in your area and pick them up. It is best for both the bees and you. Unfortunately you will not be able to place online orders. We are working on an online order form so you can enter your order and then send payment to confirm the order. Of course you are welcome to call us anytime at (423) 465-8197 and give us your order.
We are sold out of packages and queens for this season. We survived another year dealing with the post office. As of now, we are planning to ship bees in 2025 but would prefer everyone pick up their order. We wish thank everyone for their patience this difficult year. It so far has been one of the wettest years that I can remember xapped off by the recent floods. Our hearts go out all those affected and hope recovery is quick.
Our Caucasian stock is from the Georgian stock imported by Sue Coby. We are mating our Caucasian stock to Caucasian drones from a second bloodline of pure Caucasian drones. But due to Italian colonies in our area, the color of the bees from these queens will not be completely black. Most people are expecting all black bees and no yellow ones which is almost impossible to obtain in the real world. Our Italians and Russians are bred in other locations to help reduce cross breeding between them. However we are testing different crosses to produce a more mite resistant and productive honeybee.
Be sure to check out our Frank Benton International Beekeeping Association page. It has very important information about the Caucasian honey bee and the origins of the Caucasian honey bee in the Republic of Georgia.
Starting in 2015, we began producing the Cobey stock for shipment to beekeepers in the U.S. We will be maintaining at least two different bloodlines of the Georgian stock to create genetic diversity within this race of bees. These will be open mated queens mated to drones from drone producing colonies. These colonies will have frames of drone comb to produce large populations of drones to mate to the virgin queens. To make it possible to distribute this stock to as many beekeepers as possible, we will be shipping a very limited number of packages with more emphasis on producing queens. Due to the quality of the Georgian stock, we began exclusively breeding that stock starting in 2016.
Our shipping season will continue from the second week of May until mid-September, depending on the weather. Have a honey of a bee year!
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