Meet Queen Mellifera

Queen Mellifera began life in early 2024 and joined Sleeping Bear Hives in April. Her name comes from Apis Mellifera which is Latin for “honey bee”. She is an Italian queen and has filled her hive nicely with text-book perfect frames of honey, brood, and pollen. Her children are much more mellow than her sister hive, Beatrix. She is also not as difficult to find as she is marked. She may or may not have a harvest of honey this year.