Overwintered instrumentally inseminated queen bees are available now!
Visit Queen shop here: https://www.smilga-spalvina.lv/queen-shop/
Your Queens, Your Schedule – 2025 Pre-Orders Open!
Greetings to all beekeepers!
For the 2025 season, we’ve introduced a new option in our Queen shop – you can now choose the delivery period for both virgin and naturally mated queen bees. The number of available queens for each period is limited. We encourage you to place your reservations early to ensure delivery during your preferred time!
Visit our Queen shop: https://www.smilga-spalvina.lv/queen-shop/
The Queen shop is open for 2025 orders!
Place an order here: https://www.smilga-spalvina.lv/queen-shop/
Virgin bee queen sale to celebrate our scientific publication!
Greetings to beekeepers in the height of the season!
With sunny greetings,
Notice! Today is the last day we accept orders for instrumentally inseminated queens!
Greetings beekeepers!
Today (May 31) is the last day we accept orders for 2024 instrumental inseminated queen bees (Buckfast, Ligustica, Carnica, Carnica-Carphatian cross). If you haven't placed your order yet, you still have the opportunity to do so on our website - https://www.smilga-spalvina.lv/queen-shop/
Orders for instrumentally inseminated queen bees for 2024 will be fulfilled in the order they were received, starting from mid-July until mid-August. Orders will be confirmed upon receiving the prepayment.
With respect, Agnese Smilga-Spalviņa
Notice! We accept orders for instrumentally inseminated queens for 3 more days (until May 31)!
Greetings beekeepers!
For just 3 more days (until May 31st) we are accepting orders for instrumentally inseminated queen bees for the 2024 season! Don't miss out and place your order now on our website https://www.smilga-spalvina.lv/queen-shop/
This year, we offer instrumentally inseminated Buckfast, Ligustica (Finnish Italian), Carnica, and Carnica-Carphatian cross queen bees. Instrumentally inseminated queen bees will be delivered to their new homes to beekeepers starting from mid-July until mid-August.
All queens and used drones are reared from selected breeder queens, tested in our apiaries. Upon receiving the queens, the beekeeper will also receive information on the origin of the queens and used drones.
In order for us to be able to send
European honey bee Apis mellifera queens to other EU countries, a mandatory veterinary health certificate must be attached to queen
bee shipments. The buyer have
to be registered in the TRACES NT system with the code: Terrestrial animal
establishment (HBEE-EST). This can be easily done by calling local
veterinary service. Read more on our web page section: HEALTH
CERTIFICATE TRACES NT.
With sunny regards, Agnese Smilga-Spalviņa
We accept orders for instrumentally inseminated queens for 4 more days (until May 31)!
Greetings beekeepers!
In order to receive the instrumentally inseminated queens, we have to plan and start the work 60 days before, rear and maintain the drones, rear the queens, perform insemination and test the brood.
Therefore, for 2024, we accept orders for instrumentally inseminated queen bees only until May 31! The order can be placed on our website https://www.smilga-spalvina.lv/queen-shop/
The order will be confirmed after receiving the prepayment by May 31!
The 2024 queen rearing season is in full swing!
We are happy to announce that we have started rearing queen bees and the first virgin queens have already gone to their new homes! Hopefully the weather will continue to spoil us!
If you have not yet made your order for queen bees for 2024, feel free to place an order in our online store - www.smilga-spalvina.lv/queen-shop/
We are happy to announce a new product in our Queen Shop - overwintered instrumentally inseminated queen bees!
We are happy to announce a new product in our Queen Shop - overwintered instrumentally inseminated queen bees!
If you're intending to rear queen bees for your apiary this year and replace them at your convenience during the season, consider purchasing an overwintered, instrumentally inseminated queen bee now to receive it by early May!
Overwintered instrumentally inseminated queen bees (Buckfast, Carnica, Carnica-Carpathian cross, Ligustica) are available in limited numbers. Visit and order in our online Queen Shop - www.smilga-spalvina.lv/queen-shop/
We are happy to announce that we are open for orders for 2024 beekeeping season!
We offer instrumentally inseminated, naturally mated and virgin queens of Carnica, Carnica-Carpathian cross, Buckfast and Ligustica. Read more about our 2024 offers on our website www.smilga-spalvina.lv!
With sunny greetings - Agnese
Greetings to all honey bee friends!
We are excited to announce that our website is undergoing improvements and our online store is being renovated in preparation for the 2024 beekeeping season.
If you want to receive an e-mail notification about the opening of the online store for the orders of season 2024, fill out the form here.
Sincerely –
Agnes
The last 2023 Finnish Italian (Ligustica) queens are available
Greetings to beekeepers!
At the end of the season 2023, it is possible to buy the last laying Finnish Italian queen bees for the late replacement of queen bees in the apiary to start the next season with new and productive queen bees.
Visit our Queen shop - https://www.smilga-spalvina.lv/queen-shop/
We deliver queen bees all over Europe via UPS courier to the address. Delivery time depends on destination country form 1 to 5 working days.
Till later -
Agnese
The last naturally mated queens of the season 2023!
Greetings bee friends!
At the end of the season, it is possible to buy the last laying queen bees (Buckfast, Finnish Italians) for the late replacement of queen bees in the apiary to start the next season with new and productive queen bees.
Visit our Queen shop - https://www.smilga-spalvina.lv/queen-shop/
We deliver queen bees all over Europe via UPS courier to the address. Delivery time depends on destination country form 1 to 5 working days.
Till later -
Agnese
Notice! Today is the last day we accept orders for instrumentally inseminated queens!
Greetings beekeepers!
Today (May 31) is the last day we accept orders for 2023 instrumental inseminated queen bees (Buckfast, Ligustica, Carnica, Carnica-Carphatian cross). If you haven't placed your order yet, you still have the opportunity to do so on our website - https://www.smilga-spalvina.lv/queen-shop/
Orders for instrumentally inseminated queen bees for 2023 will be fulfilled in the order they were received, starting from mid-July until mid-August. Orders will be confirmed upon receiving the prepayment.
With respect, Agnese Smilga-Spalviņa
Notice! We accept orders for instrumentally inseminated queens for 4 more days (until May 31)!
Greetings beekeepers!
For just 4 more days (until May 31st) we are accepting orders for instrumentally inseminated queen bees for the 2023 season! Don't miss out and place your order now on our website https://www.smilga-spalvina.lv/queen-shop/
This year, we offer instrumentally inseminated Buckfast, Ligustica (Finnish Italian), Carnica, and Carnica-Carphatian cross queen bees.
The price for Buckfast, Carnica, and Carnica-Carphatian cross queen bees is 120 EUR/queen, with a discount to 100 EUR/queen when ordering 4 or more queens.
The price for Ligustica (Finnish Italian) queen bees is 140 EUR/queen, with a discount to 120 EUR/queen when ordering 4 or more queens.
Instrumentally inseminated queen bees will be delivered to their new homes to beekeepers starting from mid-July until mid-August.
All queens and used drones are reared from selected breeder queens, tested in our apiaries. Upon receiving the queens, the beekeeper will also receive information on the origin of the queens and used drones.
With sunny regards, Agnese Smilga-Spalviņa.
Carnica-Carpathian breeder queen KK20
Photo: KK20 queen with her silver-colored worker bees.
Greetings bee friends!
In today's post I wanted to tell you about one of our instrumentally inseminated queen KK20 who is Carnica-Carphatian cross breeder queen.
She, along with her 5 sisters, are the selected breeder queens, which we instrumentally inseminated in the summer of 2020. For 4 years now, these breeder queens have been providing us with wonderful Carnica-Carphatian cross daughters, which have not only been sent to customers all over Europe, but we have also used their daughters in the creation of many new lines, so that we can preserve the wonderful characteristics of this cross even after these 6 breeder queens will no longer be with us.
While working with this cross, we have been surprised by the remarkably rapid colony development in the spring, their ability to work in unfavorable weather conditions, and their strong hygiene behavior. This cross overwinters very well with large colonies and with low feed consumption. They are gentle and take full advantage of early spring pollen and nectar. This cross is also highly suitable for queen rearing to establish rearing colonies, so we extensively use them in our apiaries. These queens have been our main helpers and often saviors in queen rearing.
We accept orders for instrumentally inseminated queens for 9 more days (until May 31)!
Review of sustainable cryopreservation and above-freezing storage solutions of European honey bee Apis mellifera drone semen
Photo: Agnese Smilga-Spalviņa and Krišs Spalviņš at the CONECT 2023 conference. (11.05.2023)
CONECT is an international scientific conference dedicated to environmental and climate technologies organized by the Institute of Energy Systems and Environment of Riga Technical University (RTU IESE). This was the 16th year that this conference was held, and this year 125 researchers from 24 countries visited Riga to present their achievements in environmental engineering.
I also had a great opportunity this year to present my scientific publications, which I developed as part of my doctoral studies. The topic of my doctoral dissertation is increasing the efficiency of European honey bee breeding work by developing various engineering and biotechnological solutions.
The first publication on this topic has already been published under the title "Review of sustainable cryopreservation and above-freezing storage solutions of European honey bee Apis mellifera drone semen”. The publication is already available in the open-access international scientific journal Environmental And Climate Technologies. The article is available by clicking on the link https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/rtuect-2023-0014 or by searching for the DOI number in any internet search tool doi.org/10.2478/rtuect-2023-0014. The appendix of the publication is available on the zenodo.org website https://zenodo.org/record/7866650.
We will inform you about the scientific achievements in beekeeping also in the future!
We have started the queen rearing season!
Hello bee friends!
We are happy to announce that we have started the queen rearing season!
The first queens will be born on May 6! This week we will begin contacting and coordinating deliveries with all those who have placed timely orders for virgin queens. If you place your order today, your virgin queen order is expected to be delivered around May 20.
If the weather conditions continue to spoil us in May, then we will start fulfilling the orders of naturally mated queens on a first-come, first-served basis starting from June 1. If you place an order today, your naturally mated queen order is expected to be delivered around June 15.
If you plan to purchase instrumentally inseminated queens this year, we remind you that we accept orders for instrumentally inseminated queens only until May 31.
In our apiaries, we carry out evaluation, selection, rearing, instrumental insemination and testing of bee colonies, as a result of which we offer our customers F1 (first generation) Buckfast, Ligustica, Carnica and Carnica-Carpathian cross queens reared from our selected breeder queens.
The price of virgin
queens is 8 EUR/queen.
The price of
naturally mated queens is 22 EUR/queen (when ordering 10 or more, the price is
20 EUR/queen).
The price of instrumentally
inseminated Buckfast, Carnica, Carnica-Carpathian
cross queens is 120 EUR/queen.
The price of Ligustica instrumentally inseminated
queens is 140 EUR/queen.
You can easily
place orders in our online Queen shop - https://www.smilga-spalvina.lv/queen-shop/
With sunny greetings - Agnese
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