Enhanced Survival

 
 

Goldline Queens


Our Queens are strong, gentle, producers of large honey crops. The strengths of PBA Goldline bees are:


            • Strong survivors

            • High honey producers

            • Varroa mite resistant

            • Tracheal mite resistant

            • Brood disease resistant           

            • Large genetic diversity

            • Gentle

            • High brood viability

            • Pulled from the nucs after 21 days

            • Mated in African free North Georgia



The Goldline Bee is not an Italian, a Russian or from any single specific race or line of bee.  It is a cross of many.  It does represent one of the largest if not the largest and therefore most diverse line of bees available anywhere.  We collected initial breeders from any and all credible sources to include feral, New World Carnolian, Russian, purebred Italians (Australia), English Buckfast (Australia), Carnolian (Old and New world), Caucasion, German Black and many other private and commercial sources.  The bottom line is we gathered any bee that had potential and included it in our genetic tool box.  Please read about our breeding program for more information.


To maintain Goldline genetic diversity, we graft from many different Goldline breeder queens to produce the queens you will receive.  These are the same queens we use for our own production colonies.  The queen mothers are from the proven survivors that are the top honey producers.  What good is a bee if it can survive but not produce a surplus of honey?  Remember the SMR?  It is not unusual for us to graft from over several hundred breeder queens in a single season.  This is very time consuming, meticulous and expensive but is absolutely required for you to get the best.  Ask other producers how many breeders they graft from.


Every one of our queens goes through a 3 point quality control check process.  The first check is for queen performance.  For the queen to pass this first inspection she must be laying solid patterns, and have at least one frame of solid sealed brood.  The second check is for any obvious physical deformity or trouble.  The third and final is condition of the queens upon shipping.


Even though color is not a selection criteria for this strong survivor, the PBA Goldline bee is mostly light in color.  About 25% of the queens shipped will be dark in color.  You will see about the same ratio with the worker bees.  This is an indicator of the fairly large gene pool we are maintaining.  PBA Gold is the result of an intensive 12-year breeding program with an emphasis on Survival under heavy disease pressure while producing large honey crops.

  

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Queens

1-5                 $22.00/each

6-20                 20.00

21-49               19.00

50-99               17.00

100-499           15.00

500+                14.00

Clipping or Marking $1.50/ea.


Terms and Conditions


Payment

  1. •We accept Visa, Mastercard and Discovery.


  1. •If paying by personal check, balance is due 2 weeks before shipping.


  1. •We charge 100% of the queen cost as down payment for any order less than 20 queens and 20% down for more than 20, at time of order.  This deposit is non-refundable.  We can back up the date for you but there will be no refunds.  We will not keep the deposit if we cannot meet the order.


  1. •We bill for the balance (credit card orders) when we ship which includes shipping and handling charges.  Shipping and handling costs will be calculated at time of shipping.  We charge only what the expenses are for shipping and packaging.


Shipping and handling

  1. •All queen orders are shipped exclusively in JZ/BZ (plastic cages).


  1. •Shipments are not insurable and the risk is the sole responsibility of the purchaser.


  1. •Shipping and handling will be UPS Overnight Express.  Our customers have had very few losses with them.  They are the most expensive but still the most reliable.


  1. •We will attempt to contact you the day or night before we ship.  We will leave a message or email.


  1. •If you are not contacted it’s because we have not harvested enough queens for your TARGET date or have not made it to your name on the list.  Please be patient we will try our best to get you your queens as soon as possible.


  1. •If you still need to talk to a live person, we can usually be reached from  Monday -Friday 8:00 am to 4:00 p.m. EST, during the production season.


  1. •When your order arrives, take care of it immediately. 


  1. •Do not bank the queens in the shipping battery box.


  1. •Pick-ups by appointment only.

2009 Prices

Purvis Brothers Apiaries, Inc.

32 Morris Road,

Leoma, Tennessee 38468

www.purvisbrothersbees.com

rozanne@windstream.net

931-852-3033

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