3 Queens Apiary

06/25/2025

3 Queens for queen spotting (Abbee, Annie, and Cardi Bee). Can you find Her Royal Highness in each pic? Put one 👑 in the comments for each one you see.

06/19/2025

06/14/2025

Come and see us on June 22!!
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06/05/2025

Guess what we don’t use to treat mites - Amitraz! Why? Because it is a synthetic chemical insecticide. Why do commercial beekeepers rely on it so much? Because it’s easy to use, quick, and not messy. Here at 3 Queens Apiary we only use natural treatments that may be slow and messy but it’s worth it!

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USDA researchers have made a critical discovery in the fight against honey bee colony collapse in the U.S. 🐝🇺🇸

After investigating severe hive losses reported in early 2025, scientists found widespread infection with Deformed Wing Virus A & B and Acute Bee Paralysis Virus — both major threats to bee survival.

These viruses are spread by Varroa mites, and nearly all mites sampled were found to be resistant to amitraz, the key miticide relied on by most beekeepers.

This resistance is now believed to be a major factor behind the loss of over 60% of commercial colonies.

Read the full press release here:
https://www.ars.usda.gov/news-events/news/research-news/2025/usda-researchers-find-viruses-from-miticide-resistant-parasitic-mites-are-cause-of-recent-honey-bee-colony-collapses/
Photo credit: MAAREC

05/26/2025

We are very sad to hear about the tragic death of an experienced beekeeper in Las Vegas. Although the official report is not complete, he is thought to have knocked over a container of bees inside his home without his protective gear on. The bees were thought to be potentially Africanized = “killer bees”. We want to reassure our community that we are fortunate here in Northern Utah to have cold winters and thus AHB (Africanized Honey Bees) cannot survive. This is part of why we do not ship our bees off to California in the winter to pollinate crops. With that said, if you come across a hive or a swarm do not bother them. Also never try to remove a bee swarm on your own - call an experienced beekeeper or your local beekeeper association.

05/22/2025

Can you find her Royal Highness? 👑 🐝

05/21/2025

We got a great pic of our girl Pollen Abdul today. 🐝❤️

05/10/2025

We ❤️ The Local Artisan Collective!

Happy Dances for our new Lollipop Restock!!!

05/09/2025

The Big Pink Bear 🐻 had a big couple of days! We picked up our 3 new nuc hives last night and took them to the veggie farm. Then BPB 🐻 went back this morning and moved everyone into their new 🏠 . Back to the home hives to look for the queen 👑 we introduced when we split the Rooster hive about a week ago and alas - the girls 🐝 🐝 didn’t seem to have liked her ☠️ 👑 . So BPB drove to Ogden to pick up two new queens 👑 👑 and split the Rooster hive again because they are huge and showing signs of swarming. Those girls 🐝 🐝 were CRANKY 😡 which really isn’t much fun for BPB.
So……now we have 7 hives when just yesterday am there were 3. 😅

Shout out to Aunt Bee and Queen Rooster for making it thru winter and special thanks to Pookie Bear 🐻 for all of his help and for not panicking when one of our girls 🐝 got stuck in his sweatshirt hood last night at nuc pick up😳.

05/04/2025

Exciting day yesterday! We moved Aunt Bee hive from the farm to home for a week or two while the farm spot is redone. BPB closed them in the night before when everyone was home and then we loaded them up and away we went! The girls 🐝 did great!

05/02/2025

Yep. It’s bee barf 🐝 🤮

03/14/2025

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