Close-up view of honey bees on wooden frames inside a beehive, gathering honey and tending to hive.
Close-up of a swarm of honeybees, with one bee bearing a green marking with a letter B on its head.

BREEZE

Type: Carniolan Queen

DOB: May 2024 (Green)

RELATIONS: ECO (daughter), ARUKAH (daughter), BEE-TRIX (daughter), KOS (daughter).

CAUSE SUPPORTED: HOPE4.

LENGTH OF SERVICE: June 2024 - August 2025

STATUS: Died from a Wasp raid and Varroa mite overload.

ECO

ARUKAH

BEETRIX

KOS

Close-up of honeybees with one marked with a green dot on its head, working on a hive.
Close-up of honeybees on a honeycomb, with one bee marked with a green dot.
Close-up of honey bees on a honeycomb, some with green markings on their heads.
Close-up of a honeybee with a green marking on its head among many other bees on a hive surface.
A person wearing a yellow glove is handling a honeycomb frame filled with honeybees, with bees climbing on the glove and frame.

LIFE IN 2024

Breeze was a replacement Queen bee after BS Honey sent us a previous called: Bee-Bee. Who failed her hive induction and was killed by the Worker bees.

She took up residence in our second site where she brought in an incredible crop of summer honey.

By Autumn 2024 she and her colony were moved to our main site.

A young man holding three honeycomb frames decorated with painted bees and flowers, standing in front of a science project display about bees and honey production.

LIFE IN 2025

Breeze at the start of spring was our strongest colony. Her workers rapidly increased in numbers and she even helped a local boy in our community by amending some artwork that he placed in her hive.

With an incredibly calm temperament, we decided to make many future queens from Breeze. As we lost so many colonies over winter and it was Breeze that brought our apiary back to life by giving us so many fantastic new queens.

Honeycomb frame with bees and a printed image of a bee on it.

BREEZE’S DEATH

Close-up of a honey bee on a cell of honeycomb with a queen bee with a yellow and green label marked "B".

After Honey extraction in August 2025 her colony was showing worrying signs of a huge Varroa Mite infestation. So we went to work to try and help her but sadly in this weakened state Wasps took advantage and tore through her colony, killing almost all of her workers.

Breeze lay lifeless on her frame with one lone bee attending to her.

A honey bee shedding its exoskeleton on a honeycomb.