Cory Stevens is a VSH queen breeder from Missouri, USA. He has a business called Steven’s Bee Company which offers AI VSH breeder queens, VSH virgin queens and raw honey free of miticides and antibiotics.

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00:00 Introduction

1:50 Guest question - Matt Crane - Is there a correlation between colour and VSH?

3:20 Guest question - Steve Sammut - Is there a correlation between UBeeO and VSH?

5:00 Guest question - Paul Roder - Is there a correlation between bald brood and VHS?

7:00 Cory’s commercial program in which he sends out breeders and gets back high performing F1s

8:50 How the F1s in the program are assessed 

10:07 UbeeO and overwintering 

12:53 Harbo Assay

13:42 Are F1s in the program treated?

17:16 What traits are desirable in returning F1s?

19:10 Colour and VSH - Harbo

Episode Music

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