Olympic Wilderness Apiary - HoneyBees and Breeder Queens

07/30/2024

Hey Beeks
we are coming into that time of year when your spring package queens are now laying-in brood that is destined to be their winter support colony.
It’s a good time while you are getting your honey supers off, and assessing your mite treatment options, to consider the value of re-queening your colonies with freshly mated Pacific Northwest Wild Survivor queens specially bred for disease and mite resistance.

OWA "Select" Queens: LIMITED AVAILABILITY (Minimum Order: 3)
3 – 6 $65.00 ea + Shipping
7 – 12 $60.00 ea + Shipping
13 – + $55.00 ea + Shipping
TO PLACE AN ORDER CALL 360 928 3125 –
LEAVE A MESSAGE - WE WILL RETURN YOUR CALL AS SOON AS POSSIBLE

Pricing – Ordering – Availability   We are currently accepting orders for 2024 BREEDER QUEENS Call to Place an Order: 360 928 3125 ABOUT OWA HYBRID WILD SURVIVOR QUEENS   Our queens owe their exceptional hardiness to careful preservation of pioneer stock originally introduced to the remote Oly...

06/23/2024

Looks like we will be offering a few nucs this season for local pickup - call now to pre-order 360 928 3125 check our order page here https://wildernessbees.com/prices/

06/21/2024

BEEautiful warming weather finally here!! Limited number of BEEautiful Breeder Queens available soon. Contact us to order 360 928 3125. see our website for details about our unique feral breeding program

Pricing – Ordering – Availability   We are currently accepting orders for 2024 BREEDER QUEENS Call to Place an Order: 360 928 3125 ABOUT OWA SELECT HYBRID WILD SURVIVOR QUEENS   Our queens owe their exceptional hardiness to careful preservation of pioneer stock originally introduced to the rem...

06/10/2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p8wPs3vGmc
In summer of 2022 we had surprise visit From Chef Melissa King & the National Geographic crew filming their "Tasting Wild" series near our apiary ... OWA has a cameo appearance in the beginning of their "Coastline" segment which gives a beautiful overall visual of the isolated wilderness that is a large part of the success of our Wild-Survivor Queen-Breeding Program.

Nature’s incredible details take on new meaning for chef Melissa King as she joins National Geographic Photographer and Explorer Anand Varma to explore coast...

03/10/2024

We have breeding our Disease and Mite resistant feral-hybrid Survivor Honeybees for over 27 years, without antibiotics or synthetic miticides. This video shows how well our Guard Bees detect and defend their hive entrances from unwanted "intruders"

Watch as our Olympic Wilderness Survivor Bees detect and intercept a forager returning to the hive carrying a varroa mite hitchhiker. She is unaware that ...

09/11/2022

I appreciated what this photographer had to say about the hard work and interaction between the bees and the beekeeper. Thoughtful, insightful and so true

02/19/2018

February 12th 2018: weather warming enough to bring overwintered Nucs out of their indoor pod. Loose straw piled at their entrances added insulation and forced reorientation flights helping reduce any returns to their previous "pod" locations. Good idea but perhaps a bit premature. ...Temperatures dipped into the 20's a few days later requiring some creative insulation intervention!

08/25/2017

Beautiful Fireweed honey this year nearly water white...can you tell which jar is empty ?

08/25/2017

Craziest summer in 20 years of breeding queens. In addition to the usual weather challenges we face here in our tiny microclimate, smoke in the air from British Columbia wildfires disrupted Queen mating for weeks on end, sending us scurrying to more distant isolated drone areas for successfully mated queens. Whew. Looking forward to seasons' end.

05/22/2017

Special notice !!! Up to 32 Ripe Queen Cells will be available to ship on May 25th

07/30/2016

Its been a great week in the apiary. Grafting new queen cells; restocking nucs; boxing and shipping queens; and one of the best parts: spending time with beekeepers who arrived to pick up their newly purchased nucs. One of the real joys of our business is meeting other beekeepers who are genuinely excited and passionate about the bees...it seems a lot more like we have just met new friends rather than customers by the time they leave the apiary.

07/30/2016

03/06/2016

Our apiary is in a fungus rich environment where nosema ceranae has been rampant, yet our naturally-adapted wild survivor bees manage to thrive in spite of carrying unbelievably high spore loads of this pathogen. A new report on the importance of nutrition throws a spotlight on one more distinguishing characteristic of our feral stock: THEY ARE HEAVY POLLEN HOARDERS.
Hmmm…once again science catches up with nature

http://extension.oregonstate.edu/news/release/2016/02/better-fed-honey-bees-fight-harmful-effects-parasite-0

03/26/2015

We are a Washington State Apiary that is now CERTIFIED to ship our Pacific Northwest bred Wild Survivor queen honeybees into Montana State.