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QUEEN BEE BREEDERS

There are specialist queen breeders on Kangaroo Island producing pure mated Ligurian queens for sale in Australia and for export. We breed replacement queens from our top producing hives but in order to maintain genetic diversity we also purchase queens from one of the specialist breeders.

BELLEVISTA BEES Kangaroo Island is fortunate in that a queen bee breeder of world renown has chosen to move here. C.J. Coleman was a queen bee breeder and pollination expert for many years in Zimbabwe and is now working with Bellevista Bees specialising in pollination hives and selecting genetic lines for queen breeding for sale in Australia and overseas. All enquiries for queen bees should be directed to Bellevista Bees. Each queen bee is marked with the international color of the year. Year ending in 1 or 6, e.g. 2001, 2006, 2011 White 2 or 7, e.g. 2002, 2007, 2012 Yellow 3 or 8, e.g. 2003, 2008, 2013 Red 4 or 9, e.g. 2004, 2009, 2014 Green 5 or 0, e.g. 2005, 2010, 2015 Blue The queen is marked by touching an applicator of non-toxic colour to her thorax. Properly applied, the colour will remain in place for the life of the queen, enabling her to be quickly distinguished from the other bees in the hive.   Please contact Bellevista Bees for further information: Postal Address : P.O. Box 89, Kingscote Kangaroo Island, South Australia 5222 Telephone/Fax: 61- 8- 8553 2684

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