2012 Pre-Season Instrument Sale
Order your Latshaw Instrument now and save. This special offer is only valid now through March 1, 2012. Learn more here.
2012 Instrumental Insemination Course
The 2012 Latshaw Apiaries Instrumental Insemination Course will be held September 6-8, 2012. More information can be found here.
New for Fall 2011
New this fall, Latshaw's Vitamin and Mineral Supplement for Honey Bees is available in premade patties from Global Patties. Learn more here.
Other News
Thank you to all of our great customers for visiting us at the local farmers' markets throughout the summer. Learn more about our pure, all natural honey and how to order during the winter months here.
Welcome!
Latshaw Apiaries is family-owned and operated by Joe, Leah, and Jacob Latshaw. We work with our bees to make them healthy and strong, and we conduct our own research to learn how to best tend bees in the central Ohio climate.
Latshaw Apiaries focuses on the production and development of highly productive and well-adapted honey bees for beekeepers across the United States and strives to perfect and improve the instrumental insemination of queen honey bees through constant research and development. Dr. Joe Latshaw specializes in the design and production of instrumental insemination equipment used by researchers and beekeepers around the world.
Dr. Latshaw utilizes his extensive background in honey bee genetics to develop industry-recognized strains of AUREA (Italian) and KARNICA (Carniolan) honey bees. Dr. Latshaw's honey bee breeding program is designed around the Page and Laidlaw closed population model. Selective breeding based on the Page and Laidlaw model facilitates the progressive development of productive honey bee stocks.
Please browse our website to learn more about Latshaw Apiaries, our research, and our various products. And thank you for supporting local beekeeping!
AUREA Breeder Queens
Commercially productive and prolific Italian honey bees... more
KARNICA Breeder Queens
Commercially productive and hardy Carniolan honey bees... more
Latshaw Instrument
Instrumental insemination equipment, redesigned for 2011... more
Vitamin & Mineral Supplement
A balanced diet for honey bees... more
