Our Goal: Enhancing Honey Bee Health, Vigor, and Productivity
Susan Cobey on Honey Bee Breeding
My goal is to provide the tools, training, and services required to select and maintain honey bee stocks with the desired, heritable traits to enhance their vigor and productivity. This also requires advanced beekeeping skills, including the rearing and care of queens and drones. Best management practices are critical in facing current challenges such as controlling pests and pathogens, pesticide residues, and providing nutritious forage.
Providing Expertise, Instruction, and Equipment for Honey Bee Stock Improvement Through Bee Breeding and Instrumental Insemination of Queen Bees
Our Goal: Enhancing Honey Bee Health, Vigor, and Productivity
Susan Cobey on Honey Bee Breeding
My goal is to provide the tools, training, and services required to select and maintain honey bee stocks with the desired, heritable traits to enhance their vigor and productivity. This also requires advanced beekeeping skills, including the rearing and care of queens and drones. Best management practices are critical in facing current challenges such as controlling pests and pathogens, pesticide residues, and providing nutritious forage.
Who We Are
Honey Bee Insemination Service is led by Susan Cobey, an international leader in bee breeding and instrumental insemination. With decades of experience, she offers advanced insemination training, instructional material, expert advice and quality insemination equipment. Tim Lawrence, professor emeritus, partners to provide support.
Instruction and Training
Our goal is to promote honey bee health and productivity through selective breeding and best management practices. Bee breeding requires controlled mating, a large breeding population and practical and sustainable selection and evaluation programs. Consultation and training in Instrumental insemination are tailored to your individual needs.
Resources and Consultation
Videos, publications, instructional materials and recommended resources are provided for your information. For individual questions and needs, consultations are available to help you advance your program and success.
Instructional Material and Resources
We provide a variety of resources, including journal articles, fact sheets, manuals, and book chapters, to help you deepen your knowledge of honey bee genetics and breeding.
Legacy of Excellence - New World Carniolan Program
The New World Carniolan is one of the most respected and enduring breeding program worldwide. Selected and maintained for 40 generations, the NWC is widely used including its incorporation into other breeding programs as foundation stock. It serves as a teaching model for long term practical bee breeding with the goal of continuous improvement over time.
High Quality Equipment for Instrumental Insemination
Specialized insemination equipment, including instruments, syringes, glass tips, parts and accessories are offered. Critique of instrumentation and suggested upgrades available.
Have Questions?
A question & answer forum for frequently asked questions about instrumental insemination and related beekeeping practices is designed help you improve methodology. Please contribute your questions to share with other insemination practitioners.
Get in Touch
Have any questions or want to schedule training or services? Contact us today to start improving your honey bee breeding program.