Product Overview
OHB Italian Package Bees
Olivarez Honey Bees (OHB) Italian queens have good honey production, gentle nature, and strong brood-rearing viabilities. They also possess the resilience to survive the winter months in a healthy condition while maintaining a good weight, ensuring their ability to bounce back quickly during spring.
Key Features
Italian OHB bees bring their own set of special characteristics to enrich the hive environment. The following are their key traits:
- Gentle and easily manageable (a good beginner bee)
- Prolific brood producers
- Excellent hygienic behavior
- Skilled comb builders
- Superb foragers
- Excellent honey producers
- No cage exchange is necessary
See our installation guide here to help get your new Italian colony settled in.
Italian Bees
OHB has infused the Minnesota Hygienic and the VSH traits into their Italian bees, ensuring enhanced resistance and tolerance to diseases and mites.
Order and Pick Up Details
By purchasing these bees, either online, by phone, via email, in person, or by mail, you are agreeing to the bee policy. Package bee orders need to be prepaid and are subject to a $10 change or cancellation fee after the payment has been processed. Cancellations within 14 days of the bee's estimated pick up date will incur a 50% cancellation fee. No cancellations or changes can be made within 7 days of the scheduled pick up date.
Lappe's Bee Supply does not guarantee that you will be able to successfully establish a colony with the package. You agree that you will not attempt to hold Lappe's Bee Supply responsible for the condition fo your package bees once picked up and in your possession, or the for the survival or productivity of the hive that you establish from the package. We will not provide refunds or replacements for package bees that fail to thrive or die after receipt.
